Top of the Hour — 3:00 PM · Tue Aug 25, 2026
Tuesday, August 25: Nvidia heads into its most-watched earnings in years with the stock on a seven-day slide; OpenAI halts its largest frontier RL run over Astra's cyber risk; Apple quietly drops an on-device AI Mac mini; an unattributed 'Ox Alpha' model baffles developer trackers; and Anthropic's Dario Amodei publicly refutes the claim he wants his lab to be the last AI company standing. In this hour: Nvidia Earnings Eve — Seven-Day Slide, $91-95B Consensus, and a Market That Needs Reassurance · OpenAI Halts Its Largest Frontier RL Run — and Starts Rewriting the Preparedness Framework · Ox…
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