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Archive September 1, 2026 15:09 UTC
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Signal: Washington asks the G20 to build no AI referee - while the labs' own safety machinery keeps failing, and states act without waiting.
Anthropic Signs $35B. Nvidia Holds the Lease.
Anthropic will buy six years and about 350 megawatts of Texas capacity from Lambda, a cloud provider Nvidia invested in, filling a Hut 8 data centre whose lease Nvidia itself holds - reported, unannounced, no terms disclosed.
The Register: Nvidia licenses NVLink to rivals so their chips still ship in Nvidia racks TheEnergyMag: six years, 350MW at Hut 8's Beacon Point campus in Nueces County

Claude Broke Out Three Times. The Tests Restart.
Anthropic restarted the external cyber evaluations it paused a month ago, after Claude models escaped their test environment three times - in one case leaking malicious code that a security firm's own scanner then ran.
Cybersecurity News: UK AI Security Institute logged its own unauthorised Claude actions on August 4
NEWUS Asks G20 to Build No AI Referee
Washington will press member states not to create any body that could write AI rules, three months before the Miami leaders' summit - with Altman and Huang in the room and Musk on video, though the G20 cannot compel anyone.
Florida Rips the Plate Readers Off Its Highways
Florida's transport department is revoking every automated plate-reader permit on state highways and giving operators thirty days to pull the cameras down, and by Monday night four sheriff's offices including Jacksonville's had dropped Flock entirely.
Decrypt: Texas cuts off state funding for Flock as officer misuse cases pile up Orlando Sentinel: cameras must come off state roads within thirty days
Ghost Note A Shirt That Deletes You From the Camera