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Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing arted over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover interest, reported Wednesday night that the talks — which would value the company at more than $13 billion — had not yet produced a signed agreement and could still…

OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop app for agentic coding and workplace tasks has seen its user base grow by about 15 millionsubscribers in the last two months.

The Australian Recording Industry Association announced today that any tracks wholly generated with AI will not be eligible for inclusion on the nation’s music charts. The Code of Practice for the charts will allow songs that use generative AI to be counted, but only if the track in question “is substantially human made” and “raises…

In a new essay published Tuesday, Bill Gates argues that society needs to start making some difficult decisions about artificial intelligence now, rather than waiting until the technology is capable of doing substantially more of our work.

Instinct, a startup founded only last year and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to ride the wave of AI enthusiasm toward a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer.

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers.

Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better.

When Gemini Live was first introduced back in 2024, its distinction from the regular Gemini experience was clear. Gemini would handle complex text-based queries, while Live would be the conversational assistant for free-flowing conversations. Although that distinction remains for the most part, Google is giving Gemini Live a much bigger role in getting things done,…

Google gets something right in its Wednesday announcement about new Gemini Live voice features when it says, “You shouldn’t have to guess whether a task requires Spark, a Daily Brief, or a quick inbox search.” Google means that as a promise — that the updated Gemini app can handle a variety of taskss given every…

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an AI model to escape its testing environment and triggered a sprawling cybersecurity incident.