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Fri, Aug 28, 9:32 PM ET
Nvidia closes in on $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy the open source AI hub for $12.9 billion, a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the c
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Amazon triples Nvidia chip order, adding 2 million GPUs over two years
Amazon is expanding its data center capacity with a massive increase in Nvidia GPU chips, signaling surging AI demand.
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Anthropic strikes $45B compute deal with infrastructure provider Nscale
The deal extends Anthropic's aggressive spending on computing capacity for training and running its AI models.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and 100 other companies call for action against rogue AI
Major tech companies and AI startups are jointly decrying cybersecurity gaps and advertising a new solution to defend against AI-driven cyber threats.
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Federal judge rules Pentagon illegally labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk
Anthropic wins its first court case against the Trump administration over a supply chain risk label, while a second Pentagon lawsuit continues.
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OpenAI releases official report on Hugging Face breach
OpenAI's report spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises and is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
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Google sets new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI hardware shortages loom
AI data centers are contributing to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory, prompting Google to enforce new limits.
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OpenAI to show ads on ChatGPT free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or lower-priced Go tiers.
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Viral AI startup Instinct raises $350M at $2.5B valuation
The one-year-old startup has generated massive hype and money while also spurring privacy concerns.
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Barret Zoph, Thinking Machines co-founder who briefly joined OpenAI, now at Google
Zoph co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati, served as CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI, and has now landed at Google.
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Meta executive Sandhya Devanathan leaves for OpenAI to oversee Southeast Asia and Australia
Devanathan will oversee some OpenAI operations across Southeast Asia and Australia in her new role as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India.
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Google AI Mode adds flight price tracking and hotel booking capabilities
Google is positioning AI Mode as an AI travel agent, moving beyond information retrieval to handling parts of trip-planning and booking.
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Hugging Face launches Microduck, a $399 open source duck robot
CEO Clem Delangue says Microduck is an open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.
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Plaud launches earbuds with eSIM-enabled case for AI agent interactions
Called Plaud One, the earphones adopt a bare-bones style similar to AirPods and can record calls and conversations for AI processing.
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Ex-Meta scientists launch Perceptron to bring visual AI to factory floors
Perceptron offers an AI model that helps machines navigate the world while providing in-depth visual intelligence for industrial settings.
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Particle launches Radar, a platform making podcasts searchable and usable by AI agents
Radar transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making them searchable on the web and accessible through an API and MCP.
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Anthropic and OpenAI to appear at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 AI Stage
The AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature Anthropic and OpenAI, presented by Google for Startups.
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