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Archive August 15, 2026 20:07 UTC
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Signal: Every check is porous -- filters that never ran, a watermark you can strip, laws drafted by chatbot -- and the capital keeps moving.
Anthropic Ran 133M Chats With Bio Filters Off
For eleven months Anthropic's blocking classifiers for chemical and biological weapons never ran on its human-feedback platforms -- about 50,000 vendor-vetted contractors, some 133 million exchanges, with the logging disabled by the same flag -- and it found out only on an outside tip.
Unite.AI: the same report raises Anthropic's own misalignment rating and shelves Model 2 SiliconANGLE: the 186-page report also concedes its own benchmarks can no longer keep up

Anthropic's Revenue Up 14x, First Profit
Documents shown to IPO investors put Anthropic's preliminary Q2 revenue above $11.5bn against $787m a year earlier, with positive adjusted operating income -- the first hard profitability figure the company has let out, and it is preliminary.
Blockonomi: run rate $47B, past OpenAI's $40B, with a first operating profit near $559M IBTimes: the CFO is running early IPO meetings and has not named a valuation
Nvidia Halves Its $250B OpenAI Backstop
Nvidia has cut its proposed guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio campus from $250bn to under $120bn after investors questioned its risk exposure -- the second time the same partnership has been trimmed, and the first retreat in the circular financing this page has tracked since July.
CNBC: the same week's 13F shows $21B of SpaceX and a $5B Intel bet now worth $30B The Decoder: the halved guarantee covers only the project's first five-gigawatt phase
Washington to 35 Countries: Pick a Side on AI
A State Department draft reviewed by Reuters warns Pax Silica signatories -- Japan, Australia, South Korea and Kazakhstan among them -- that joining China's rival WAICO framework costs them the US-led AI supply chain.
Seoul Economic Daily: draft says 'seeking to belong everywhere is the same as belonging nowhere'
Ghost Note The Robot With a Rolex and a Million Fans