AI's control fight hit Congress, open models, capital markets and the grid.

HotTea: The AI Morning Briefing · Aug 11, 2026 · 6m · transcript

Bernie Sanders told the biggest AI labs to pause development, Meta answered the control debate with an open-weight model and a superintelligence manifesto, Nvidia turned compute into a Wall Street financing product, data-center backlash became local politics, NATO records kept drone autonomy in the security lane, and AI-designed bacteriophages moved biosecurity from theory to lab practice. 6 evidence-backed stories. AI-generated narration. Complete briefing and source links: https://hottea.ai/archive/2026-08-10?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=show_notes&utm_campaign=daily_briefing Sections…