[AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] The US Fo...
[AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] The US Forces Allies to Pick a Side, Nvidia Halves Its OpenAI Backstop, and OpenAI Dissolves Its Risk Team (August 17, 2026)

AI Unraveled: Latest AI News, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepS... by Etienne Noumen

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Today we analyze "Pick a Side: Sovereignty, the Shrinking Backstop, and the Collapse of Trust." We break down the State Department framework asking thirty-five nations to choose between American and Chinese AI, the halving of Nvidia's financial guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio campus on the same day it announced 4.25 gigawatts there, and the governance split that saw Anthropic publish exactly how its watermark works while OpenAI dissolved the team that assessed catastrophic model risk.

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  • Pax Silica: the State Department asks 35 partner nations to align with US AI systems — shared investment access, joint projects, coordinated export controls on models, semicon ... 
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