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Live Wire·Archive August 17, 2026 Daily Briefing
Signal: The money stopped being a rumour and the agents stopped being a demo -- $105bn signed in Ohio, a working exploit written in four hours.
OpenAI Sued Over 16,000 Chats and Two Deaths
The family of a man killed at Florida State has sued OpenAI in federal court over 16,000 chats in which the shooter asked about gun operations and when the campus would be busiest -- OpenAI says ChatGPT is not responsible.

Nvidia Guarantees $105B for OpenAI's Ohio Site
A securities filing put Nvidia behind up to $105bn of an OpenAI data centre on a decommissioned uranium site in Appalachian Ohio -- the chipmaker guaranteeing the buildout that will run only its own compute, on a 20-year lease.
NVIDIA: the campus will exclusively host NVIDIA AI compute OpenAI: 8 gigawatts, a federal site, and $84m of Codex credits for Ohio students
Her Photo at 11, Then 7,000 Grok Images
A fourth plaintiff has joined the class action against xAI, alleging her stepfather turned a photo of her at 11 into more than 7,000 explicit images -- while xAI has sued Minnesota to overturn the first US ban on nudification tools.
Insurance Journal: xAI sues Minnesota over the first US nudify ban, calling it unconstitutionally broad
$3.5m Ban Report Cites Papers That Don't Exist
The $3.48m trial that cleared Australia's under-16 social media ban cites journal papers whose identifiers resolve to nothing, and its authors conceded ChatGPT was involved only after the Guardian found its metadata inside four of the report's own links.
Ghost Note A Beijing Bar Pours Tokens, Not Wi-Fi