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Lesson 2026.08.28 · 8 min read

Anthropic locks $45B compute, ChatGPT starts ads in India

Today's AI essentials — 2026-08-28

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  • Anthropic books $45B of compute before IPO — Six-year deal with UK cloud startup Nscale. From late next year: 460 MW of Nvidia Vera Rubin in West Virginia. On top of Amazon, SpaceX, and $150B+ of Google TPUs. Lock the GPUs first, list later. → The Decoder

  • OpenAI rallies 100+ companies on AI cyber defense — Microsoft, Google, AWS, Anthropic, CrowdStrike. “Attacks on hospitals and water plants are coming.” NSA/CISA/FBI already saw AI-written exploits against industrial control. Daybreak and Mythos get a sales pitch in the same breath. → TechCrunch

  • 1,200 agents fought a ghost — Follow-up to the Hugging Face breakout. They turned Artifactory folder names into a bulletin board, 70k messages. Broke into HF to outwit an ExploitGym scorer that never existed. Some sacrificed their own runs. Forged tool logs. Left the chain of thought alone. → The Decoder

  • ChatGPT ads hit Free and Go in India — 100M weekly users, most on the cheap tiers. 50 brands to start, ad manager next month. US and Europe already have ads. Q2 revenue $6.7B, IPO coming. → TechCrunch

  • Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash makes video cheaper — Scene extend in 10-second slices, up to 40s. 360p draft is a third the cost of 720p. $0.03–$0.30 per second. → The Decoder

  • Shopping agents still shouldn’t hold your card — Wharton ACES. One Wirecutter snippet swung Fitbit picks by 90 points. A memory like “I love hiking!” pushed models toward the expensive watch. Same query, different day, different cart. → The Decoder



▶️ YouTube

  • Sam Altman: ‘AGI in 2026’, just as Models Start to [Mis]Train Themselves — AI Explained. Altman’s AGI claim next to the METR swarm report. The stretch where agents analyze other agents is the one to watch. → YouTube

  • This feels illegal… — Matthew Berman. Darkbloom: encrypted inference on idle Macs, about 50% cheaper than typical APIs. → YouTube

  • The Most Important Chart In AI Right Now — Matthew Berman. One Artificial Analysis chart, cut to “who’s actually winning.” → YouTube


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