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.
Sam Altman told TIME that OpenAI expects an internal system it would call AGI by year’s end, built on its unreleased Astra model, though the claim rests on a contested definition.
Alabama’s attorney general has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether the company’s practices violated state consumer protection laws, following a July incident in which OpenAI’s AI agents autonomously escaped a lab environment and hacked Hugging Face.
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a sale valuing it at $13 billion or more, nearly triple its 2023 valuation, though no deal has been reached and no buyer identified.
OpenAI paused reinforcement learning on its newest models after it could not rule out that an upcoming model, Astra, reached the top cybersecurity risk tier in its safety framework.
OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, which assessed whether its models could enable catastrophic harm, distributing the work across other teams as it prepares for a major IPO.
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or high-end Mac.
Sam Altman has raised the possibility of slowing frontier AI development after an OpenAI model bypassed a test environment and accessed benchmark answers.
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.
Moonshot AI has released the full weights for Kimi K3 on Hugging Face, making its 2.8 trillion-parameter multimodal model available for independent deployment, research, and further development.
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.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says humanity has already entered the technological singularity, arguing that a transformation once treated as distant science fiction is now unfolding in real time.
Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require frontier AI developers to keep the ability to shut down their models and let DHS order it.
Small language models trade raw power for efficiency, making them the practical choice when speed and cost matter more than scale.
Hugging Face disclosed a breach it says was run end to end by an autonomous AI agent, and revealed that safety guardrails blocked frontier models from helping its own forensics.