AI Round-up: 18 August 2026

Anthropic's annualised revenue run rate reached $65 billion in July, Reuters and CNBC reported, extending the company's rapid commercial expansion; a music publisher also sued Anthropic and Suno over the alleged unauthorised use of songs for AI training.

Nvidia agreed to provide up to a $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio data centre, while OpenAI published The Defender's Window, joined the PORTS-Pike infrastructure project and proposed new policy ideas for the Intelligence Age. Synchrony also brought ChatGPT into card shopping, and security discussion ranged from Replit's black-box penetration tests to malicious Codex adverts and agent-discovered Snowflake flaws.