双语科技快报 | 2026-08-18 | 09:40 速览
## 1. Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it “being hunted”
来源: Wall Street Journal
时间: 8:45 PM
资料来源：Situational Awareness 在争夺现金时以 20% 的折扣出售了其 50 亿美元 Anthropic 的部分股份；其麻烦的消息使其“被追捕”
## 2. David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas
来源: David Sacks / @davidsacks
时间: 6:25 PM
大卫·萨克斯 (David Sacks) 在阿莫迪分享政策想法后表示，“达里奥·阿莫迪 (Dario Amodei) 认为前沿人工智能太强大，无法分散；我们相信它太强大，无法集中化”
## 3. Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material
来源: Samantha Cole / 404 Media
时间: 5:40 PM
Pornhub 的母公司 Aylo 将支付 1.2 亿美元来和解 2021 年在加利福尼亚州和阿拉巴马州提起的两起集体诉讼，指控其从虐待儿童材料中获利
## 4. Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B
来源: Alan Neuhauser / Axios
时间: 5:20 PM
消息来源：Crusoe 正在与至少四家华尔街银行进行 IPO 谈判，其中包括摩根大通，摩根大通正在为其 3B 美元的 IPO 前融资提供咨询，预计估值为 35B 美元
## 5. Opening arguments begin Tuesday in the state AGs' social media addiction lawsuit against Meta; New Mexico AG says the consequences could be “astronomical”
来源: Jonathan Vanian / CNBC
时间: 5:05 PM
周二，州检察长针对 Meta 提起的社交媒体成瘾诉讼开始开庭审理；新墨西哥州股份公司表示，后果可能是“天文数字”
## 6. BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023
来源: Stacy Cowley / New York Times
时间: 5:00 PM
Flex、Zip 和 Affirm 等 BNPL 贷款机构现在正在为满足基本家庭需求提供贷款； 2025 年，美国人通过后付款贷款花费了 160B 美元，比 2023 年增长了 2 倍
## 7. Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025
来源: Bloomberg
时间: 4:00 PM
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## 8. African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts
来源: Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch
时间: 3:05 PM
非洲国防科技公司 Terra Industries 成立于 2024 年，从 8VC 等公司筹集了 5200 万美元的种子轮资金，并表示有望预订 1 亿美元的合同
## 9. Sources: the US DOJ has been investigating a16z for nearly a year over whether its partners are improperly serving on the boards of competing AI companies
来源: Bloomberg
时间: 1:35 PM
消息来源：美国司法部对 a16z 进行了近一年的调查，调查其合作伙伴是否在竞争人工智能公司的董事会中任职不当
## 10. Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more
来源: Cursor
时间: 1:30 PM
Cursor 表示，它正在所有付费计划中推出其代码托管服务 Origin 的早期测试版，其中包括对存储库、拉取请求、GitHub 同步等的支持
## 11. YouTube will start counting a view as soon as a video starts to play, from August 24, lining up with the system used by Instagram, TikTok, and its Shorts videos
来源: Emma Roth / The Verge
时间: 1:25 PM
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## 12. Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models
来源: James Nani / Bloomberg Law
时间: 1:20 PM
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## 13. Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations
来源: Tobias Burns / CNBC
时间: 1:00 PM
Nvidia 宣布针对人工智能基础设施的 500B 美元融资计划遵循 SEC 7 月份的指导意见，该指导意见确认了对数据中心证券化的更宽松限制
## 14. Monzo Chair Gary Hoffman is leaving after some of Monzo's biggest shareholders called for his removal following the board removing TS Anil as CEO in December
来源: Simon Foy / Financial Times
时间: 11:50 AM
Monzo 董事长加里·霍夫曼 (Gary Hoffman) 即将离职，此前 Monzo 的一些最大股东在董事会于 12 月解除 TS Anil 首席执行官职务后呼吁罢免他
## 15. A German regulator says Apple will make changes to ATT, after finding Apple gave its apps more favorable consent prompts than those of third-party developers
来源: Reuters
时间: 11:30 AM
德国监管机构表示，在发现苹果为其应用程序提供比第三方开发商更有利的同意提示后，苹果将对 ATT 进行修改