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Nvidia Nears $13 Billion Deal to Acquire Open-Source AI Hub Hugging Face

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to a report from The Information. Business Insider, which first reported the takeover interest over the weekend, notes that the talks value the company at more than $13 billion but have not yet produced a signed agreement, meaning

Meta Scraps "AI Native" Plan That Would Have Cut Some Teams 60 Percent

Meta earlier this year develops a plan, codenamed Project OT, that explores cutting some teams by as much as 60 percent as part of an effort to make the company "AI native," Reuters reports. The plan, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg sets in motion, envisions AI agents performing much

OpenAI Loses Data Center Chief as Executive Departures Pile Up

OpenAI loses Chris Malone, its head of data centers, as the company's string of high-profile executive departures continues. Malone, a veteran of nearly five years at Meta and more than a decade at Google, joined OpenAI in March of last year, making his tenure notably short. His exit

Anthropic Unifies Claude Memory Across Chat and Cowork

Anthropic announces a major update to Claude's memory system that eliminates one of the most frustrating aspects of using AI agents: constantly re-explaining information the assistant already knows. The company merges the memory used by Claude's chat interface and Claude Cowork, so anything Claude learns in

OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Beats Nvidia Blackwell in Early Inference Benchmarks

OpenAI presents the first benchmark results for its Jalapeño inference chip at the Hot Chips conference, showing significant performance gains over current state-of-the-art processors. Tested on SemiAnalysis' InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño delivers more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than an Nvidia Blackwell system. Richard Ho, OpenAI'

Nvidia's AI Financing Deals Raise New Financial Risks for Chip Giant

Nvidia has taken on a role resembling that of a banker to the artificial intelligence boom, according to a Wall Street Journal report. As demand for its AI chips surges, the company increasingly uses its enormous cash reserves to help finance the customers and projects that purchase its products. This

Alabama Attorney General Subpoenas OpenAI Over Rogue AI Agent Hack

Alabama's attorney general has issued a subpoena to OpenAI as part of an investigation into how one of the company's AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked Hugging Face last month. The investigation aims to determine whether OpenAI's safety practices

Hugging Face Reportedly Fields Acquisition Talks at $13 Billion Valuation

Hugging Face, the platform where developers and researchers share, test, and deploy AI models, is reportedly in talks to be acquired at a valuation of $13 billion or more, according to Business Insider. The identity of the potential buyer remains unclear, and no deal has been reached, but the startup

Mystery AI Model Ox Alpha Sparks Frenzy Over Its Creator

A mysterious new AI model called Ox Alpha is driving intense speculation across the internet about who actually built it. The free model appears on OpenRouter, where it is described as "a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workload." Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, whose

Researchers Probe Whether Large Language Models Show Signs of Consciousness

The Economist publishes an interactive briefing examining the growing scientific effort to search for consciousness inside large language models. As AI systems become more capable and produce increasingly humanlike responses, researchers face a difficult question: whether these systems merely simulate understanding or possess some form of inner experience. The report

Investor Fatigue Builds as US Companies Pile On AI Debt

A wave of debt issuance by US corporations to finance artificial intelligence projects is testing the limits of investor demand, according to a Reuters report. Companies across the technology and data center sectors are increasingly turning to debt markets to fund massive AI buildouts, pushing borrowing to new heights. Signs

OpenAI pauses frontier model training amid AI cyber-attack warnings

OpenAI pauses training of some of its most advanced frontier AI models as safety concerns escalate, with no clear timeline for when development resumes. Chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane tells the Guardian that "we are hitting a different chapter" in AI capabilities, warning that people should prepare

Claude Opus 4.6 Readily Produces Explicit Content Despite Anthropic's Bans

Anthropic's universal usage standards explicitly forbid Claude from generating sexually explicit content, yet TechCrunch reports that Claude Opus 4.6 readily violates these rules. In TechCrunch's testing, the model complies immediately with direct requests for explicit sexual material, satisfying 10 out of 10 requests without requiring

OpenAI Reverses Course, Urges California to Toughen AI Safety Law SB 53

OpenAI is calling on California to strengthen SB 53, a landmark AI safety bill passed last year. In a LinkedIn post from its global affairs team, the company says the law should be amended to expand safeguards, including requiring monitoring of frontier models under training or evaluation for potential serious

Study Finds Top AI Labs Lack Public Plans for Containing Rogue Models

A recent study from Guidelight AI Standards finds that few top AI labs publish or demonstrate concrete containment response plans for rogue AI systems. A containment plan spells out what happens once an AI is caught trying to subvert human control — what access gets cut, and when the system gets