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Yesterday in AI | 12 August 2026
“Free” is the New Gateway Drug, Invisible Tattoos, and a Bitcoin Miner Becomes a Landlord
Local execution, output provenance, and soaring compute costs collided this week. This episode breaks down Nvidia releasing Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model optimized to run locally on consumer laptops.
We explore Anthropic introducing invisible watermarking into Claude text outputs to establish provenance, examine an unreleased Claude model making historic progress on the 160-year-old Riemann Hypothesis math problem, cover Anthropic's $9B–$16B power deal with bitcoin miner Riot Platforms, analyze startup Pathway's ultra-cheap BDH-CQ model, and look at Spotify badging AI-generated musical acts starting mid-September.
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