Sanders Threatens AI Pause, Nvidia Partners with Wall St on Compute-Backed Securities
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-08-15
Senator Bernie Sanders sent a formal letter to the CEOs of Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, threatening congressional action to pause AI development. Meanwhile, Nvidia partnered with six major Wall Street firms to create over $500 billion in compute-backed investment structures. Other highlights include plans for Grok 4.7 to train on SpaceX data with 2 trillion parameters, and a feature film made for $2M in 4 weeks by 28 people.
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