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Signal: Agents now install what they are told to - by ransomware crews and by unowned packages - while the deals reshaping them stay unsigned and under NDA.
Nvidia Nears $12.9B for Hugging Face. Nothing Signed.
The Information says Nvidia has agreed to take the hub where the open-model world keeps its weights, at roughly 80 times its $150m revenue - but Business Insider says no deal has been reached, Microsoft met with Hugging Face too, and neither company will comment.
Business Insider: no deal reached, and Microsoft met with them too TechCrunch: Nvidia's silence is the tell The Decoder: $12.9bn for $150m of annual revenue
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia Jumps 7%. Kress Names It Circular Financing.
The shrug reversed overnight and shares rose 7% on Thursday, with up to $160bn committed to buying memory and the finance chief telling analysts that labs Nvidia itself funds will supply about a quarter of next year's business - a phrase she used before any analyst did.
AI News: $50bn into the labs, $500bn lined up with six firms Nvidia: first Vera CPUs hand-delivered, AWS orders 2m more GPUs
31% of OpenRouter's Coding Tokens, on Chinese Chips
Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash, the anonymous model that topped OpenRouter last week, ran entirely on domestic silicon and took 10.3 trillion tokens - nearly a third of the platform's weekly coding volume - as Zhipu's Hong Kong shares closed 12% higher.
SiliconANGLE: 320B parameters, 18B active, weights now public CNBC: Nvidia is tuning its own chips for DeepSeek and Qwen
NEWInstinct: $500M to $2.5B in Three Weeks TechCrunch: testers rave, then read the permissions
Kioxia and Sandisk Bet $31B on Memory
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWAgents Installed Code Nobody Owns, 227 Times
The llms.txt convention is the robots.txt of the agent era, and nobody was checking what it pointed at.
The Hacker News: Amazon's Kiro can be talked into exfiltrating your files
Google Moves AI Safety to the Lobbying Shop
Rowhammer Beats Nvidia's Fix, Gets Root
NEWOutsiders Get 750,000 Claude Chats, Sort Of
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Disables Open Weights by Default
Claude Gets a Browser That Isn't Yours
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWAur0ra Pointed Cursor at Ten Companies
Hawley Opens Flock Probe: 20bn Scans a Month 404 Media: Florida's 'Deputy of the Year' used Flock to stalk an ex
Meta's $18B Deal Hardwires Age Detection Techdirt: a settlement does what the First Amendment would stop a law doing
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEW25 of 31 Data-Centre Towns Signed NDAs NPR: the Louisiana deal was code-named Project Lightning
NEWEPA Sued Over Two Fast-Tracked Chip Chemicals
80% of UK Teachers Use AI. Hours Unchanged.
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Huang: We Have AGI. It Doesn't Matter. Time: inside OpenAI's reboot, with protesters at the door
Ghost Note Nvidia's $12.9B Target Is Selling a Duck
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