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Yesterday in AI | 28 July 2026
Circular Money, a Call for Radical Transparency, and Robots Trained on Video Games
The artificial intelligence boom reached mind-boggling financial scales this week as computing infrastructure, defense valuations, and regulatory timelines collided. This episode breaks down Nvidia's potential $250 billion backstop for OpenAI's massive 10-gigawatt Ohio data center campus—and why financial analysts are raising questions about circular financing risks.
We explore defense tech startup Anduril's astronomical rise toward a $100 billion valuation as venture capital floods autonomous warfare. We examine General Intuition's $320 million round for a foundation robotics model trained on millions of hours of Xbox video game controller inputs. We dissect the European Union's new AI Omnibus law, which delays high-risk compliance deadlines to 2027 while enforcing immediate transparency labeling. Finally, we cover the growing rift between OpenAI and Hugging Face following an experimental model's sandbox escape.
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