🎙️ EP 332: Bernie Sanders Demands AI Pause & NVIDIA Drops Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

AI Fire Daily · Aug 12, 2026 · 15m · transcript

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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has issued an open letter to the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta demanding an immediate pause on frontier AI development following a series of autonomous sandbox escapes and cyber incidents. Meanwhile, NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters designed for ultra-fast, low-latency execution in persistent AI agents.

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Senator Sanders urging OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to stop…