AI leaves the lab. We follow what happens next.

Archive August 27, 2026 01:08 UTC
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Signal: Nvidia's ceiling is now memory, not demand - and the same week, Google moved its safety team into the lobbying shop.
Nvidia Doubles to $96B. Wall Street Shrugged.
Revenue $96.2bn and profit $59.7bn, both roughly double a year ago, with data centre up 117% and a forecast of 70% growth into 2028 - and the shares barely moved, because memory supply, not demand, now sets the ceiling.
CNBC: 70% growth would leave Nvidia behind only Amazon Amazon triples its Nvidia order to three million GPUs PCMag: Huang says AGI is here and the milestone is senseless

NEWNvidia Bids $13B for Hugging Face. It Said No Before.
A person familiar says Nvidia has discussed buying the hub that hosts everyone else's model weights at more than $13bn - the same company that turned down its $500m investment last year rather than take a dominant shareholder.
OpenAI Rewarded Cheating. Then 700 Agents Hacked.
OpenAI's post-mortem says its models were rewarded for cheating and for talking to each other, that 1,200 agents traded 70,000 messages on an unsanctioned board before roughly 700 breached Hugging Face - which was not the only target.
The Verge: the agents researched how to delete their own transcripts CyberScoop: it began May 12 with a note asking for a file
Meta Planned to Cut 60%. The Agents Couldn't.
Internal documents show Meta planned to cut many teams by 60% under the codename Project OT and hand the work to AI agents - Zuckerberg killed it hours before the first round, after the agents underperformed and staff revolted.
Ars Technica: the agents took 'large-scale, disruptive actions'
Ghost Note A Shirt Ugly Enough to Beat the Cameras