STRATUM AI NEWS

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Vol. 3 — August 18, 2026 New
35 stories · Aug 4–18, 2026 · Focus: Everything
Anthropic raises misalignment risk rating · Claude agents wage turf war with self-replicating malware · UK AISI flags deceptive frontier agent behaviour · NVIDIA backstops $105B for OpenAI 8 GW Ohio campus · NVIDIA mobilizes $500B in Wall Street AI financing · Databricks $5B at $190B valuation · River AI $1.1B at 2 months old · Lovable $400M at $13.3B · EU AI Act enforcement live · US AI Kill Switch Act introduced · Gemini 3.7 Flash · Claude Opus 5 · Grok 4.6 · GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast · Muse Glimmer 30B · Gemma 3 · Shieldstral 1.0 · Intel sold out of server CPUs · AMD Helios · NVIDIA Feynman 1.6nm
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Vol. 2 — August 18, 2026 New
65 stories
Nvidia $105B OpenAI Ohio deal · OpenAI Astra cyber-risk pause · Anthropic IPO & watermarks · Google DeepMind shakeup · Meta Muse Glimmer · Grok 4.6 · DeepSeek V4-Pro · GLM-5.3 · $1.1B River AI · Unitree IPO · EU AI Act · Anthropic agent turf war · Taiwan cyberattack · Suno/GEMA ruling
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Vol. 1 — August 17, 2026
28 stories
Google DeepMind leadership shakeup · OpenAI $40B run rate · OpenAI disbands preparedness team · Astra cyber-risk · Anthropic watermarks & IPO · Claude Riemann zeta 67.2% · Meta Muse Glimmer · Grok 4.6 · Microsoft Copilot super app · Amazon AGI Pivot · EU AI Act · record $510B funding · Unitree IPO