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OpenAI funds 14 think tanks ahead of IPO scrutiny

OpenAI funded 14 think tanks across the US political spectrum, plus groups in Europe, Brazil, Singapore and South Korea, to study AI's economic impact.

WSJ: nine tech giants carry $3 trillion in AI debt

A Wall Street Journal analysis published today found nine tech giants carry $3 trillion in AI commitments that haven't hit their balance sheets, nearly double a July estimate.

404 Media traced a rare book into Amazon's AI scanning ops

404 Media hid an AirTag in a rare-book order and tracked it to VGT3, Amazon's book-scanning facility feeding text into its Nova model training pipeline.

Nvidia, OpenAI sign 20-year Ohio data center deal

Nvidia signed a $1.5B SB Energy investment and OpenAI signed a 20-year, 8GW Ohio lease, replacing the $250B guarantee that spooked markets in July.

Higgsfield's AI video valuation jumps to $5.4B in 7 months

Higgsfield closed a $400M round on August 17, 2026 at a $5.4B valuation, up 4.2x from the $1.3B mark it hit just seven months earlier.

TIES and DARE stop LLM merges from erasing skills

Averaging two fine-tuned LLMs can quietly cancel out both models' specialized skills, and TIES-Merging plus DARE, the machinery behind most Hugging Face frankenmerges, exist specifically to stop that.

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