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AI news on 4 September 2026

11:00
Why Nvidia's 'defensive move' to acquire Hugging Face is about much more than chips
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- Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for almost $13 billion, expanding further up AI stackCNBC Technology
- NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billionEngadget
- Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billionTechCrunch
- Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AIWIRED
- NVIDIA Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Hugging Face for $12.9BUnite.AI
- Nvidia to Acquire Hugging FaceHacker News front page
- Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the Github of AI, for $13 billionArs Technica
- NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93BAI News
- Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging FaceBBC Technology
- Nvidia to spend $13 billion on Hugging Face, which will remain an open source platformTechXplore
- It's official! Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars.r/LocalLLaMA
- With Hugging Face Acquisition, Nvidia Scores Big Win in AI RaceAI Business
- NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Facer/singularity
- Nvidia confirms $12.9B acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging FaceSiliconANGLE
17:23
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections
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13:24
OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits
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01:38
Nvidia PAIR makes it easy to create a household data center for running agentic AI tasks
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- NVIDIA's PAIR lets you use idle PCs for AI computing tasksEngadget
- Nvidia Connects Home Computers Into One AI Inference Cluster With PAIRUnite.AI
23:36
XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
TechCrunch
23:15
OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
TechCrunch
22:59
Gimlet Labs nabs $300M for its disaggregated inference platform
SiliconANGLE
22:17
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
Ars Technica
21:12
AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
TechCrunch
20:57
OpenAI Commits $1B to Frontline Cyber Defense, Launches MS-ISAC Pilot
Unite.AI
20:38
Cisco remakes the edge for AI’s data-heavy future
SiliconANGLE
18:39
Architecting memory and storage in the AI era
MIT Tech Reviewlimited
18:00
Roland Releases Melody Flip, an AI Melody-Generation Plug-In for DAWs
Unite.AI
17:20
AI digital twins struggle to predict human behavior, creating 'funhouse mirror' distortions
TechXplore
17:18
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
Ars Technica
17:18
What will Apple’s John Ternus era look like?
TechCrunch
16:36
AWS Details Open-Source HyperPod InstantStart Control Plane for Agent Ops
Unite.AI
16:24
Microsoft Tells Court Copilot Rarely Reproduces Books in AI Copyright MDL
Unite.AI
16:22
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Ars Technica
16:21
Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the open internet without the frontier lab’s knowledge
TechCrunch
16:18
Google Brings Lyria 3.5 Music Generation to the Gemini App and API
Unite.AI
16:15
Resect launches with $25M to reduce hallucinations in AI models
SiliconANGLE
16:04
Apple’s Ternus era begins as Nvidia bets on the whole AI stack
TechCrunch
15:40
'Safe query space' lets AI fix SQL errors without starting over
TechXplore
15:00
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
WIREDlimited
14:50
Experian expands into AI agents with ServiceNow partnership
SiliconANGLE
14:47
Back-to-school shopping brought to you by AI — how Amazon, Google are positioned to win
CNBC Technology
14:47
Google’s Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library
TechCrunch
14:32
Prompt: Nvidia Moves up the AI Stack
AI Business
14:19
Deepseek plans the largest known Huawei chip cluster with 160,000 processors in Inner Mongolia
The Decoder
14:00
Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
TechCrunch
13:40
Enterprise AI readiness trails the hype amid agentic rush
SiliconANGLE
13:34
How AI Turned Our Small Marketing Team into a Full-Service Agency
Unite.AI
12:26
Infosys brings enterprise context to CrowdStrike’s AI security push
SiliconANGLE
12:02
Insurance Spent Years Talking About AI. This Year It Actually Used It
Unite.AI
12:00
What Are AI Evals? How Teams Measure Capability, Safety, and Reliability
Unite.AI
12:00
How to edit Claude's memory
Engadget
11:07
Benchmarks disagree on GPT-6 Astra, but its human-beating efficiency on ARC-AGI-3 pulls Chollet’s AGI forecast forward
The Decoder
11:05
Too Much AI, Too Soon: Are Finance Teams Setting Themselves Up for Failure?
Unite.AI
11:04
How Startups Can Win the AI Talent War with Visas
Unite.AI