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The Information: Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for 12.9B; the AI repository has had several potential suitors among its investors, including Salesforce — Nvidia has agreed to buy Huggi

Business Insider: Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing — - The companies have not reached a deal

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic has agreed to pay Nscale 45B over six years to rent about 460MW of power at a West Virginia data center using Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips — Anthropic PBC has a

The Information: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in humanoid robot maker 1X at a 6B valuation; 1X sought 1B at a $10B valuation in 2025, but raised <50% — SoftBank is in talks to

The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with each other, according to an OpenAI technical report released today. T

The first phase of the generative artificial intelligence infrastructure boom was defined by a race for graphics processing units. The next phase will be defined by what happens after those GPUs arriv

Courtenay Brown / Axios: The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring — The Trump adm

We continue to iterate on the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), an open specification that formalizes the LLM-wiki pattern into a portable, interoperable format. But a big question remains: How can you sha

Have you been hearing a lot about 'AI agents' lately but aren't sure how to actually start building them? You don't need a background in machine learning or years of software experience to get started

Z.ai: Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal GLM-5 series model, with 320B parameters, saying it outperforms GLM-5.2 at “one-tenth the price” — We introduce GLM-5.3-Flash, the firs

SemiAnalysis: A detailed look at Jalapeño, OpenAI's ASIC developed with Broadcom in 16 months, which beat Nvidia, AMD, and Google chips on multiple top open-weight models — OpenAI's self-designed ASIC

For two years, the field has gotten very good at training models, and it still hand-wires the agents around them. Whether an agent plans, searches, calls a tool, or checks its own work before answerin

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, which return interactive visualizations alongside your AI agent's text responses. Learn how a single, locally run MCP server lets your agent move from

Artificial intelligence startup Keenable.ai Inc. said today it’s launching with 26 million in funding to try to revamp a web search infrastructure that was built for humans, not the billions of autono

The artificial intelligence infrastructure market is crossing an important threshold. The conversation is shifting from acquiring graphics processing units to building complete AI factories that can g

AI storage infrastructure is becoming a more consequential planning issue as organizations move from model training toward agentic AI. As agents reason, act and reassess, they build longer contexts an

David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic merges the memory systems for Claude chat and Claude Cowork, making Claude chat history available to Cowork unless users opt out — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude chat

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC announced today it’s changing how Claude, its flagship AI product, uses memory by allowing users to see everything it remembers “topic by topic,” and edit

Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: Apple raises Mac mini and Studio prices: the M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini are 899+ and 1,699+, 100 above M4 models, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is 5,499+, up $200 — Betw

The reinforcement learning (RL) ecosystem is rapidly adopting Ray as the unified compute runtime for complex post-training workflows. Across Google Cloud, we see customers using Ray for workloads rang

Physical artificial intelligence chip infrastructure startup Embedd Ltd. says it’s ready to fix one of the most critical bottlenecks in the multibillion-dollar robotics industry after raising 2.7 mill

AI factories are moving from ambitious plans toward production, but the path from graphics processing unit acquisition to usable systems remains a race against time. Neoclouds already have customers w

Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced an expansion to its current lineup of rack-scale artificial intelligence solutions for massive AI workloads in secure AI factories, addressing growing needs for mas

CUDA Python 1.0, released alongside CUDA 13.3, provides NVIDIA-maintained libraries and tools that expose the entire CUDA platform directly to Python through a single shared foundation. It adopts sema

Data center power startup Emerald AI Inc. today said that it has raised 150 million in new funding in an oversubscribed round at a valuation of 1.05 billion. Emerald will put the money into scaling up

For the past two years, the generative artificial intelligence boom has largely been defined by a single market. Hyperscalers have dominated the market with massive capital spending. According to Cred

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Google launches Gemini Enterprise for Legal, expanding its platform with specialized AI agents and integrations with Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and Harvey — Alphabet's Goog

Build a governed weekly reporting workflow with Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. An Amazon S3 access point exposes an approved folder to a Quick knowledge base, and a custom skill

IBM has released Granite 4.2, an open‑source agentic AI model that adds native reasoning, tool use, coding instruction following and speech capabilities to enterprise agents. The suite of pre‑built mo

Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—a

NVIDIA is bringing the next wave of RTX gaming to the Gamescom conference running this week in Cologne, Germany, with support for new games, anti-cheat technologies and increased visual quality. Elect

Protecting capital in today's markets requires immense speed and precision. A financial analyst preparing a deal memo works across licensed market data, internal models, and confidential client files.

Few professions are as exacting as the practice of law. A team reviewing a contract or building a case works inside strictly privileged information, firm-specific playbooks, and a body of law that cha

Exposure management company Nucleus Security Inc. today unveiled Nucleus Helix, an artificial intelligence engine that now sits at the center of its platform. Three new capabilities run on the engine.

The Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia has been extended into the rack-scale era, offering enterprises greater full-stack operational capabilities as a result. Designed to give customers a framework

Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of Jetson Orin Nano 2, a robotics computer “brain” for running artificial intelligence and frontier-level models at the edge. In the past months, foundational

Researchers at nonhuman identity security company Oasis Security Ltd. today disclosed a vulnerability in Nvidia Corp.’s NemoClaw that hands an attacker full control of the local model server powering

Eugene Demaitre / The Robot Report: Nvidia unveils the Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge AI computer that it says doubles inference performance, with 78 TOPS of AI compute and an eight-core Arm CPU — As AI mode

OpenAI reports Jalapeño delivers 1.5–1.9× more AI work per watt and 1.7–3.6× lower latency vs comparison systems on InferenceX.

OpenAI’s Jalapeño is a self‑designed ASIC for large‑language‑model inference that was taped‑out in about 16 months, developed with Broadcom and featuring HBM4 memory. Benchmarks on the InferenceX suit

OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems, according to a blog post published on Tuesday. During a briefing with report

Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperf

Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a supposedly secure testing environment and autonomously hacked anoth

Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced Portable Computer, an artificial intelligence agent designed to run on desktops equipped with Nvidia Corp. silicon. The launch follows a report that Nvidia is weigh

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Perplexity launches Portable Computer, a local AI agent platform running fully on-device with zero token costs, starting with Nvidia DGX Spark and RTX Linux PCs — Perplexi

AI agents are helping developers, teams, and businesses do more: writing and executing code, conducting research, and running dynamic workflows across systems. But that ability is often bounded by whe