Pulse Daily — Friday, August 21, 2026
On Friday, August 21, 2026, AI dominated headlines across finance, security, transportation, and public trust: Anthropic filed for a potentially record-breaking IPO, Nevada unleashed 8,000 robotaxis, Nvidia struck a $7-billion deal with Poolside AI, a fully autonomous AI cyberattack on Taiwan's government entered the public record, Brazil committed $444 million to domestic AI infrastructure, OpenAI launched a teen-safe ChatGPT mode, Claude gained invisible watermarking, a new benchmark exposed frontier LLMs' scientific blind spots, Dario Amodei reframed AI backlash as a crisis of…
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