AI BRIEFING · 2026-08-25

Securing AI as OpenAI, Anthropic Models Advance

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Also: AI Cloud Firm Lambda in Talks for 3 Billion Pre-IPO Round, and Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer. Every story links to its primary source.

Curated by Gaurav · August 25, 2026

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Securing AI as OpenAI, Anthropic Models Advance

Bloomberg Technology ↗

AI safety startup Alice has raised $140 million to expand its work stress-testing advanced models and helping companies protect against emerging risks. CEO Noam Schwartz explains how threats once carried out by individuals are increasingly amplified by AI, why recent incidents involving frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic have sharpened attention on the issue, and how the company works with AI labs and enterprises to identify vulnerabilities before they can cause real-world harm. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

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AI Cloud Firm Lambda in Talks for 3 Billion Pre-IPO Round

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Lambda Inc., an AI cloud-computing provider backed by Nvidia Corp., is in talks to raise as much as $3 billion in a round that could tee it up to go public next year, according to people familiar with the efforts.

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Perplexity partners with Nvidia to launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent with zero token costs

VentureBeat ↗

Perplexity is launching Portable Computer, a local version of its agentic Computer platform. It runs on hardware users already own, starting with Nvidia's DGX Spark desktop supercomputer and Linux machines with Nvidia RTX GPUs. The model, files, and execution stay on the device, local work consumes no billing credits, and the system asks permission before sending any step to a cloud frontier model. For Nvidia, the launch signals that local AI has moved from hobbyist curiosity to practical tool.

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