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At Gamescom, Samsung revealed its 2027 Odyssey gaming monitor lineup, headlined by the 27-inch Odyssey G6 G60H now hitting a 1,100Hz refresh rate, up from the 1,040Hz figure teased at CES. The dual-mode IPS panel still caps at 600Hz in native 1440p, reserving the extreme speed for 1080p. Samsung also unveiled updated OLED G9, G8, and G7 models, including a 49-inch G9 that reaches 360Hz at DQHD resolution or 720Hz in a dual-HD mode.
According to The Information, Nvidia has agreed to acquire AI model-sharing platform Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, though Business Insider says talks are still ongoing without a signed deal. Neither company has confirmed the reports publicly. The price would make it Nvidia's largest acquisition ever, well above the $7 billion it paid for Mellanox in 2020.
According to a report from The Information, Nvidia has reached a deal to purchase Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI collaboration platform, for $12.9 billion. The talks reportedly began after another suitor expressed acquisition interest in Hugging Face, and Business Insider had separately reported the startup was working with a bank to gauge buyer interest. Neither Nvidia nor Hugging Face has confirmed the deal, and CNBC said it could not independently verify the report.
ShinyHunters, an extortion group, published roughly 50GB of stolen Carhartt data on the dark web after the apparel maker declined to pay a $3.3 million ransom demand. Have I Been Pwned founder Troy Hunt confirmed the leak stems from a breach of Carhartt's Databricks analytics platform, exposing 12.9 million accounts containing names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses, alongside employee and corporate records.
Xiaomi has launched the Redmi Note 17 Pro Max with a 9,210mAh dual-cell silicon-carbon battery in Europe, and a 10,000mAh single-cell version in some other markets. The company claims up to three days of typical use or 37 hours of continuous video playback, alongside 100W wired charging that can fully charge the device in just over an hour.
Bill Gates published an essay urging governments to impose enforceable rules on AI, including a tax on AI token usage to fund support for displaced workers and protected 'Human Reserved' jobs like caregiving. He said tech executives privately worry about AI's disruptive pace but avoid saying so publicly, breaking from the industry's optimistic public stance.
The Information reports, citing a source familiar with the matter, that Nvidia has agreed to purchase Hugging Face, the widely used open-source AI model hub, in a deal valuing the company above $13 billion. Business Insider says the agreement has not yet been finalized and could still fall apart, and neither Nvidia nor Hugging Face has commented on the reports.
Google announced that starting February 2027, Android apps and games on the Play Store must comply with new per-app memory limits based on a device's total RAM, with games given more lenient thresholds than apps. Titles that fail to meet these caps risk reduced visibility in the Play Store or being blocked from publication altogether. The rules build on per-app memory limits first tested on Pixel phones under Android 17, now expanding device-wide.
Ring is rolling out a new default encryption system called TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) across its video doorbell and camera lineup worldwide. Footage is encrypted with keys that rotate every five minutes, and Ring can only temporarily access those keys via an isolated AWS Nitro Enclave to power features like Smart Alerts before permanently deleting its copies within 24 hours. Users can still opt for full end-to-end encryption instead, though that disables cloud-based processing features.
Amid persistent layoffs, AI-driven job anxiety, political instability, and rising living costs, many professionals like 32-year-old Ange are rethinking the traditional vision of career and personal success. What once meant a stable corporate job, a home, a wedding, and disposable income for extras is being reconsidered as increasingly unattainable or undesirable.
The UK's grid connection queue is overwhelmed with speculative data center projects that are unlikely to ever be built, worsening wait times and complicating energy demand forecasts. Ofgem has proposed requiring developers to post large nonrefundable deposits, potentially reaching hundreds of millions of dollars for the biggest projects, and to demonstrate secured customers and funding before joining the queue. The plan is open for industry feedback until September before being finalized.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, based in Hangzhou, is said to be raising fresh capital that would value the company at roughly $74 billion. The funds are intended to support research and development along with an expansion of its computing infrastructure.