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Nvidia to Acquire AI Startup Hugging Face for USD 13 Billion
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, taking control of the platform that has become the default home for open-source AI models...
Nvidia Bets USD 12.9 Billion on Open-Source AI With Hugging Face
Nvidia confirmed Thursday morning it's acquiring Hugging Face for close to $13 billion, ending weeks of speculation about a deal that had been...
Hut 8 building 350MW Texas data center for Anthropic's Claude AI
Anthropic has agreed to pay Lambda $35 billion for cloud computing capacity, according to a Reuters report citing an unnamed source.
Perplexity Open Sources Lily Inference Engine for Qwen3.6-35B on Apple Silicon
Perplexity has put its local inference engine out in the open. Lily, the runtime that powers Hybrid Compute in Perplexity Computer, now sits in the...
Meta Workers Overused AI Tools to Inflate Internal Metrics
Meta told employees this week that their performance reviews will no longer hinge on how often they use the company's AI tools, according to three...
Qwen Open-Sources zg, a Local Search Tool Combining ripgrep and Vector Search
Ask any coding agent how it spends its tool budget and search comes up fast. Ripgrep nails exact symbol lookups in milliseconds, but the moment a...
At TechCrunch Disrupt, AI Stage to Feature De-Extinction Tech Talk
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is splitting its AI programming in two. The AI Stage returns with its usual lineup, but a second stage is joining it this...
Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe Costs USD 0.18/Hour, Handles 20+ Speakers
Meta Superintelligence Labs put a price tag on its new transcription model this week: $0.18 per hour of processed audio for Muse Voice Transcribe, a...
Google's New Gemini 3.8 Flash Model Works Harder, Costs More
Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Flash this week, barely a month after Gemini 3.7 Flash hit the market.
OpenAI's New Reasoning Method Sparks AI Safety Concerns
OpenAI's forthcoming Astra model uses a reasoning method called "recurrent depth," according to a report from The Information published Tuesday.
Switchyard: A Rust Library That Routes LLM Traffic Between OpenAI and Anthropic
Claude Code talks to the Anthropic Messages API. Codex CLI talks to OpenAI's format.
Trump Administration Backs OpenAI in Copyright Case
The Justice Department filed a letter in federal court Tuesday backing OpenAI in its copyright fight with The New York Times, a case that's been...
DOJ Backs Fair Use for AI Training in Copyright Case
The Justice Department filed a brief this week in the Southern District of New York, staking out a position that could shape every AI copyright...
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash Priced at USD 0.58 Per Task
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on Thursday, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and just six weeks after the Flash line's last release.
OpenAI Limits Astra's AI Reasoning Technique for Safety Monitoring
OpenAI pushed back the launch of Astra this week, its next flagship model, citing unfinished safety work.
US Government Backs OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Case
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest this week in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, siding with the AI company...
HiddenLayer Raises USD 100M as Financial, Defense Clients Secure AI
HiddenLayer has raised $100 million in a new funding round, three years after closing a $50 million Series A that arrived at a moment when nobody...
Researchers Develop System to Predict Self-Driving Car Errors
A self-driving car brakes for no obvious reason and blocks an ambulance trying to get past.
OpenAI Faces Dozens of Lawsuits Over Tumbler Ridge Shooting
Thirty new lawsuits landed against OpenAI and Sam Altman on Wednesday in a California federal court, filed by students, teachers and the principal...
OpenAI: Astra's 'Thinking' Becomes Harder for Humans to Monitor
OpenAI put a new label on Astra this week: "critical" cybersecurity risk, the highest tier in its own Preparedness Framework.