Nvidia Reportedly Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though no signed deal is confirmed and talks could still fall apart.
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Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though no signed deal is confirmed and talks could still fall apart.
Nvidia is building hardware optimizations for Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Qwen, even as it warns regulators that US restrictions on such models could hurt its business.
Bill Gates published a 6,000-word essay warning that the AI transition could be one of history's most disruptive periods, urging new institutions and a plan before it's too late.
Google Cloud launched Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a specialized AI platform with agents for drafting and contract work, joining Anthropic and OpenAI in courting law firms.
More than 1,200 employees from leading AI companies are asking the U.S. government to help create international mechanisms that could slow automated AI development if capabilities begin advancing faster than society can evaluate or control.
Microsoft has introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact cybersecurity model that works inside the MDASH multi-agent system to find, validate, and help remediate vulnerabilities across large codebases.
NVIDIA has formed the Open Secure AI Alliance with Microsoft, IBM, Palantir, CrowdStrike, and more than 35 other organizations to build open-source defenses for AI agents and software.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US could sanction Chinese AI companies found to have distilled American models, claiming officials have found US "watermarks" in Chinese systems.
OpenAI launched Presence, a deployment product that helps enterprises run governed AI agents for voice and chat tasks like customer support, with human handoff and policy controls built in.
Google is designing Frozen v2, a chip that hardwires parts of its Gemini model into silicon and could serve six to ten times more tokens per watt, targeting deployment by 2028.