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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, its second-biggest acquisition yet, after it paid $20B to buy assets from chipmaker Groq in December 2025 — Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion …
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LinkedIn: Mark Heaps, Irene Solaiman, Julien Chaumond, and Clem Delangue
Bluesky: @tomaarsen.com and @robcyran
Forums: r/LocalLLM and r/nvidia
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
All G20 nations unanimously endorse the non-binding Carolina Principles, a US-proposed framework calling for a lighter touch to governing emerging tech like AI — Representatives from the world's largest economies unanimously agreed to adopt guidelines proposed by the US that call … | Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
At the G20 summit, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk joined Trump officials in lobbying policymakers against heavy AI regulations — Company bosses, officials say advances in technology are already making AI safer than under government regulations| Anil Dash: |
Modern venture capital has transformed into an unchecked oligarchy, or “Cancer Capital”, where mega-firms managing $50B+ live off fees and shift risk elsewhere — We really, really need to talk about venture capital. Because it's not “venture capital” anymore.
LinkedIn: Anil Dash and Danah Boyd
Bluesky: @robin.berjon.com, @lexroman.com, @anildash.com, @anildash.com, @karlbode.com, and @anildash.com
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
ChatGPT and Grok are experiencing issues; OpenAI says it has applied a mitigation, and Anthropic says all systems are operational after a Claude outage — A widespread outage has taken out popular AI platforms including ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok. — Update 8:49am PT: Services appear …
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Bluesky: @simli and @daniloc.xyz
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft plans to start disclosing Azure quarterly revenue as part of a shift in its reporting structure, under which Azure revenue grew 42% to $29.42B in Q4 — Microsoft will start disclosing quarterly revenue for its Azure cloud business for the first time, providing investors …
More: The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Quartz, The Economic Times, 24/7 Wall St., WinCentral, Reuters, Neowin, The Information, and Bloomberg
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage — The company also announced a new Eufy video doorbell with VR features and a window camera.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta — PAIR is designed to get your desktop and laptop working together on local AI tasks when not in use.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it improves performance across agentic and coding tasks, at the same pricing as Spark 1.2 — Meta on Wednesday released Muse Spark 1.3, an update it says significantly improves performance in coding and agentic tasks.
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| @artificialanlys: |
More: Claude, Artificial Analysis, The Rundown AI, and Android Authority
| Mark Zuckerberg / @finkd: |
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| Dawn Lim / Bloomberg: |
How organized opposition that toppled a $100B data center project in Virginia's Prince William County became a blueprint for data center backlash in the US — Organized opposition toppled a $100 billion project from developers backed by two of the world's biggest private equity companies.
More: Financial Times and Denver Business Journal
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes — As the artificial intelligence companies Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to go public, the question around Silicon Valley is which investors will win big.| Farah Stockman / New York Times: |
The Trump administration imposes tariffs of up to 100% on foreign drones, including 100% on models over 55lbs or with thermal imaging, in a bid to thwart China — In addition, the F.C.C. is weighing stiff restrictions on common drone technology such as thermal imaging and aerosol spraying.
More: Barron's Online, Semafor, Investor's Business Daily, Quartz, Euronews, Newser, The Economist, and Daily Sabah. Forums: r/Tariffs
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Upwind, which filters false security alerts in cloud apps so companies can focus on actual risks, raised ~$300M at a ~$3.8B valuation, up from ~$1.5B in January — The Israeli cloud security company was valued at $1.5 billion when it raised $250 million in January, and has since attracted fresh backing … | Wired: |
Sources: Meta adjusts employee review language around “AI-driven impact” and token usage, easing off on tokenmaxxing, while promoting the use of AI agent Hatch — The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle smart glasses, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, and Australia — HTC Corp. is rolling out its Vive Eagle smart glasses in the US, entering a market where category leader Meta Platforms Inc …
More: T3, CNET, Engadget, How-To Geek, MakeUseOf, The Deep View, Canadian Press, Android Authority, Telecompaper, WVOC, and CBS News
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI — OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned.
More: Barchart.com
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use UK-based Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers — The cars have no lidar and no geofence, but still will have human safety drivers for the initial launch.
More: Reuters, The Guardian, Wayve, Bloomberg, PCMag, Motley Fool, IJR News, BBC, Metro.co.uk, France 24, Telegraph, Hürriyet Daily News, The Sun, The Independent, Digital Trends, BusinessCloud, Nairametrics, Silicon UK, Neowin, InsideEVs, Tech.eu, CNN, Automotive World, Tech Funding News, Business Standard, The Daily Upside, RuntimeWire, Unite.AI, New York Times, Axios, CNET, Bloomberg, Mirror, Engadget, The Asia Business Daily, Los Angeles Times, The Indian Express, The Irish Times, and Financial Times
X: @warrenwhyteuk, @christesla, @nvidiadrive, @maginabheet, @rowlsmanthorpe, @alexgkendall, @sebjohnsonuk, @wayve_ai, and @uber
LinkedIn: Andrew Hutchinson and Nick Reeves
Forums: r/london and r/SelfDrivingCars
| CNBC: |
Equinix, whose stock is up 33% YTD, pushing its market cap to $100B, inks a deal with Nvidia to let customers run their AI models on the Together AI platform — Long before the era of the hyperscalers and neoclouds, and decades ahead of the AI data center boom, there was Equinix.
More: DatacenterDynamics, StorageReview.com, Equinix Newsroom, Equinix Newsroom, and Tech in Asia. LinkedIn: Katie Tarasov
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Nvidia says the RTX Spark N1X launches in October in two configurations: a 20-core CPU with a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU and an 18-core CPU with a 5,120-core GPU — Nvidia is finally getting more specific about the launch of the RTX Spark. The chip, which it is now officially calling the …
More: CNET, How-To Geek, The Verge, Windows Central, HotHardware, Wccftech, and Tom's Guide
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
TrendForce: for a 256GB iPhone Pro model, Q3 memory costs are forecast to be up nearly 400% YoY; Apple is not expected to pass on the full increase to customers — A new market intelligence report suggests that Apple will be paying four times more for iPhone 18 Pro memory than it did for last year's model.
More: AppleInsider, TrendForce, MacRumors, The Apple Post, MacTech.com, and Apple Must. Forums: r/apple
| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Munich-based Atira, which aims to use AI to automate the parsing and generation of complex bid proposals, raised a $15M seed led by Accel and a $2.5M pre-seed — When a company that builds fire trucks, rail-maintenance machinery, or electric vehicle chargers is invited to bid on a big contract … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock to acquire agentic IT support startup Console; PitchBook: Console had a $157M valuation before the sale — Palo Alto Networks paid $500 million in cash and stock to acquire Console, a two-year-old startup that uses AI agents …
More: San Francisco Business Times, CTech, The Elec, Palo Alto Networks, and Tech in Asia. LinkedIn: Neil MacDonald
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Uber is aligning with drivers' unions in a bid to slow the rollout of robotaxis across the US, as it faces a technological disruption to its core business — Ride-hailing app admits its effort to back workers may appear ‘ironic’ after years of clashes with drivers.Sponsor Posts
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