[VIDEO 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)
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Important Topics:
- 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, semiconductors and critical minerals.
- About two dozen have signed, including Japan, Australia and South Korea. The operative line: "To be part of everything is to be part of nothing."
- Kazakhstan signed both Pax Silica and China's framework, alarming Washington and drawing no penalty — the framework is explicitly non-binding.
- China's World AI Cooperation Organization, announced by Xi Jinping in July, offers no investment access. It offers models ...