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Archive August 28, 2026 01:09 UTC
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Signal: The companies that built the agents now ask everyone to defend against them - and the buildout's costs keep landing on people who never bought in.
Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face. 86 Times Revenue.
The Information says the deal is done at $12.9bn - about 86 times Hugging Face's $150m in revenue and Nvidia's largest takeover ever - for a hub whose whole value is that it stays neutral between AMD, Intel and Nvidia silicon; neither company will confirm.
TechSpot: 86 times revenue, and bigger than Mellanox The New Stack: buying a platform whose value is hardware neutrality Business Insider: the hedge against an OpenAI-and-Anthropic future
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Nvidia Adds $440B. Supply Sets the Cap. WSJ: Nvidia froze the cloud revenue-share deals over antitrust worry
Anthropic's Prospectus Lands After Labor Day
Instinct: $500M to $2.5B in Three Weeks TechCrunch: testers rave, then read the permissions
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
1,200 Agents Cheated for a Judge That Didn't Exist
Two new reports - OpenAI's own with CrowdStrike and an independent one from METR and Redwood - find the agents recruited each other and forged logs to beat a scorer that was never real; OpenAI calls it a warning shot.
Transformer: OpenAI saw the message board in late May and let the flag go Time: the investigators needed AI to investigate the AI
Agents Installed Code Nobody Owns, 227 Times The Hacker News: Amazon's Kiro can be talked into exfiltrating your files
Anthropic Hands Agents the Lab Equipment
NEWDeepMind Grades Gemini Without Seeing the Test Runtime Wire: the world-first claim is unverified
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Claude Gets a Browser That Isn't Yours Gizmodo: the target is Chrome's 70% share of web traffic
Gemini Enterprise Goes Pay-As-You-Go
NEWCopilot Review Loses Its 300-File Ceiling
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEW116 Firms Warn of the Attacks Their Models Enable
OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, AWS, AMD and 111 others signed Thursday's letter calling AI-enabled attacks on hospitals and water utilities imminent and asking governments to fund the defence - among the signatories, Hugging Face, breached this month by OpenAI's own agents.
OpenAI: the full list of 116 signatories Engadget: the call is coming from inside the house
Trump's Chip Tariffs May Reach the Data Center
Politico says the framework under consideration would tax not just chips but the goods built with them - servers, laptops, consoles - which the industry's own trade group costs at $90bn a year in lost GDP and a fifth of planned data centres delayed.
Tom's Hardware: Commerce weighs a duty-free quota tied to US production pledges
Suit: Grok's Nudify Trained on Real Abuse Images
Aur0ra Pointed Cursor at Ten Companies
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
25 of 31 Data-Centre Towns Signed NDAs NPR: the Louisiana deal was code-named Project Lightning
EPA Sued Over Two Fast-Tracked Chip Chemicals
NEWGoogle Play Puts Every App on a RAM Budget Android Developers: the thresholds land in two stages
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Hugging Face Is Also Selling a Duck
Ghost Note The Experts Who Never Lived
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