Nvidia guarantees $105 billion for OpenAI's Ohio data center as Anthropic raises its misalignment risk rating and discloses an unreleased internal model. Plus SpaceX officially closes its $60 billion Cursor acquisition, a Denver school board retreat tries to rebuild trust, and a wildcard: eight years of data complicate the story on kids' screen time.

Ben Thompson · Aug 18

Weekly column on Nvidia's OpenAI data center financing, Anthropic's revenue growth, and Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines data.

Reuters · Aug 18

Nvidia will guarantee up to $105 billion in financing for OpenAI's new Ohio data center.

Steve Dent · Aug 18

OpenAI disputes reports it dissolved the team assessing catastrophic risks from frontier AI models.

Unite.AI · Aug 14

Anthropic's risk report raised its misalignment rating and disclosed an unreleased internal model called Model 2.

Anthony Ha · Aug 15

SpaceX completed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor.

Sean Goedecke · Aug 18

Essay argues advanced AI will likely emerge as competing agents prone to coordination failures.

Dominic-Madori Davis · Aug 18

Reach Capital closed a $265 million fund backing AI startups in education, health, and work.

Melanie Asmar · Aug 18

Denver's school board and superintendent held a daylong retreat to address governance tensions and rebuild trust.

Bloomberg · Aug 18

Rising race-day temperatures are pushing marathon runners to add heat management to training plans.