Nvidia buys Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion
Nvidia agreed to pay US$12.9 billion for the open-model hub used by 18 million developers, says its chips will not be required to use it, and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027.
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Nvidia buys Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion
Nvidia agreed to pay US$12.9 billion for the open-model hub used by 18 million developers, says its chips will not be required to use it, and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra on the day ChatGPT went dark
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday. Its president called it a generational leap that might be AGI, and safety researchers say its reasoning method is playing with fire.
OpenAI shifts teen accounts into restricted ChatGPT mode
The restricted mode is live. OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT for Teens globally on 18 August, automatically routing any account it estimates belongs to a user aged 13 to 17 into a locked-down version of the product. Teenagers made ChatGPT a daily study and companionship tool years before this.
Anthropic watermarks Claude outputs but bypass takes hours
Anthropic's watermarking announcement is a compliance move dressed as a trust signal. On 14 August 2026 the company said it would embed invisible watermarks into every output from its Claude models, covering both text and generated files.
OpenAI boss admits he was wrong about how fast AI would take jobs
When GPT-4 launched in 2023, Sam Altman expected a rapid, visible restructuring of white-collar work. Businesses would retool, roles would vanish, whole sectors would be remade faster than regulators or HR departments could track.
MIT researchers find AI images cannot be traced back to any single artist
The engineering question at the centre of AI copyright disputes has always been mechanical: can you trace what a model produces back to the specific images it learned from?
Goldman Sachs says AI is already cutting 16,000 US jobs a month
Goldman Sachs Research has put a monthly figure on what was, until recently, largely a matter of conjecture: AI has shaved roughly 16,000 jobs a month from US payroll growth over the past year, enough to push the unemployment rate up by about 0.1 percentage points.