# [VIDEO AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] The US Forces Allies to Pick a Side, Nvidia Halves Its OpenAI Backstop, and OpenAI Dissolves Its Risk Team (August 17, 2026)

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Published: 2026-08-17T20:02:31+00:00
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🎧 Watch ADS-FREE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/djamgamind/id6760446113 Visit our Research Hub at https://djamgamind.com/pdfs Important Topics: Pax Silica: the State Department asks 35 partner nations to align with US AI systems — shared investment access, joint projects, coordinated export controls on models, semiconductors and critical minerals. About two dozen have signed, including Japan, Australia and South Korea. The operative line: "To be part of everything is to be part of nothing." Kazakhstan signed both Pax Silica and China's framework, alarming Washington and drawing no penalty — the framework is explicitly non-binding. China's World AI Cooperation Organization, announced by Xi Jinping in July, offers no investment access. It offers models you can download. Nvidia cuts its proposed guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio data centre from $250B to under $120B after investors objected to the risk exposure. The same day: Jensen Huang announces the PORTS-Pike site in Portsmouth, Ohio with OpenAI as tenant — 4.25GW, $150–200B in Nvidia revenue per generation over 20 years. "In the AI economy, compute is revenue." Dario Amodei breaks a long silence on X, calling the choice between locking AI down and open distribution a "false choice" and public distrust "fundamentally a crisis of trust." David Sacks answers point by point, calling pre-deployment federal review "a DMV for AI" and noting Anthropic hired senior Biden AI-policy officials. OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of July, folding catastrophic-risk assessment into other departments ahead of its IPO. Ethics lead Chloé Bakalar and safety head Johannes Heidecke both resigned. Anthropic publishes the watermark mechanism: it changes the randomness source in word selection. No hidden characters, no extr…

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