AI INSIDE DAILY | Friday, August 21, 2026

This is the free Friday episode of AI Inside Daily. Here are today's top stories in AI: Nevada just approved permits letting Tesla, Uber, and Waymo run up to 8,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, a day after Waymo detailed the custom chip powering its fleet. https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/tesla-uber-and-waymo-all-get-the-ok-to-operate-thousands-of-robotaxis-in-nevada/ OpenAI shipped a new ChatGPT plugin that reads and sends your Apple Messages on Mac, and Bloomberg says it's raising real privacy questions for Apple. https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/20/chatgpt-update-adds-apple-messages-integration-on-mac/ Nvidia struck a strange new deal with AI startup Poolside: 6 billion dollars to license its model-building software and hire 109 of its staff, while the founders stay independent and call it neither an acquisition nor an acquihire. https://the-decoder.com/nvidia-is-acquiring-poolsides-model-factory-and-109-employees-for-6-billion/ Anthropic is privately telling investors it wants its IPO to match or beat SpaceX's record raise, and it's hoping to file the paperwork by the end of this month. https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/20/report-anthropic-hopes-to-surpass-spacexs-record-ipo-raise-when-it-finally-goes-public/ Broadcom is in talks to raise over 60 billion dollars in debt to finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies, the infrastructure bill behind that IPO ambition. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/broadcom-seeks-more-60-billion-201702584.html Patrons get AI Inside Daily every weekday. Five episodes a week for $5/month: https://www.patreon.com/aiinsideshow