OpenAI locks down an 8-gigawatt Ohio campus with Nvidia's backing as a new safety scorecard gives every AI lab a C+ or worse. Plus Google's Gemma passes a billion downloads, Stripe expands into Australian treasury services, and a wildcard: anthropologists want to redraw the human family tree.

David Forster · WOUB · Aug 18

OpenAI signed a 20-year lease for about 8 gigawatts of a new Nvidia-backed data center campus in southern Ohio.

Guidelight AI Standards · Aug 18

Guidelight's first safety assessment gave Anthropic and OpenAI a C+, Google a D+, and xAI and Meta failing grades.

Clement Farabet & Olivier Lacombe · Google DeepMind · Aug 20

Google's open Gemma model family passed one billion cumulative downloads, with developers publishing more than 100,000 variants.

Dan McAteer · Latent Space · Aug 22

Argues that AI agent progress is shifting from harness engineering toward managing and shaping human attention instead.

Simon Willison · Aug 21

Links to Thomas Ptacek's argument that coding agents make building real GUIs cheap enough to replace command-line tools.

Stripe Newsroom · Aug 19

Stripe launched Treasury in Australia, letting businesses accept payments and manage multi-currency funds from one dashboard.

Molly Snaylam · fintech.global · Aug 20

Bank of China (Hong Kong) will provide settlement banking infrastructure for Alipay+ payments across Southeast Asia.

Ben Thompson · Stratechery · Aug 19

Covers Apple's App Store settlement with the EU and new ATT rules taking effect in Germany.

Esteban L. Hernandez · Axios Denver · Aug 16

Denver Public Schools began a bell-to-bell ban on phones and smartwatches during the school day this week.