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Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, confirming earlier reports of the deal. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue told CNBC he personally reached out to Nvidia's Jensen Huang over the summer, saying talks moved quickly once initiated. Huang said the platform will remain open to the broader AI ecosystem while gaining more scale and infrastructure support.
Nvidia has formally agreed to buy Hugging Face, the developer platform known for hosting open-source AI models and datasets, in a deal worth close to $13 billion. Nvidia says it will keep Hugging Face's open standards intact, expanding its own push into free, customizable AI tools like its Nemotron models.
Nvidia has officially completed its purchase of Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, ending weeks of speculation. Hugging Face's platform, which hosts three million models, one million apps, and half a million datasets for over 18 million developers, will remain open, according to CEO Jensen Huang, who pledged that Nvidia hardware won't be a requirement for using the service.
A developer released Reactor Atlas, a Show HN project that visualizes installed nuclear power capacity worldwide, letting users select a year and view net electrical output in megawatts for operating reactors. The interface supports both Spanish and English and currently shows a 2026 view where no reactors are yet marked as operating.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the company is acquiring Hugging Face, the open-source AI model-sharing platform, in a deal worth $12.93 billion. Huang said NVIDIA plans to scale the platform's infrastructure and broaden AI access, while pledging Hugging Face will remain open to the entire ecosystem without requiring NVIDIA hardware. The deal, still subject to regulatory approval, follows NVIDIA's earlier investment in Hugging Face during a 2023 funding round.
RPCS3 developers publicly criticized Nvidia's unreleased DLSS 5 technology after modders leaked and tested the DLL on games and the PS3 emulator itself, calling the results 'slop' and accusing the industry of using upscaling and frame generation to mask poor optimization. Some users pushed back, arguing that DLSS and FSR frame generation can work alongside optimization efforts, with Reflex helping offset added latency. RPCS3 says it won't adopt such techniques, noting PS3-era games lack the motion-vector data needed for modern temporal upscalers.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model repository used by over 18 million developers hosting more than 3 million models, in a deal valued at roughly $12.93 billion. Nvidia says Hugging Face will keep operating as an independent, open platform, allowing developers to use any framework, cloud or hardware, not just Nvidia's own chips.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude all began experiencing service disruptions within roughly a two-hour window on the same day. Users reported errors with chatbot conversations, logins, file uploads, voice mode, and other features, while Anthropic attributed its partial outage to an infrastructure issue and xAI said it was working to restore service. None of the companies have confirmed whether the outages are connected.
OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex services went down starting around 10:58 AM ET on Thursday, with users unable to access conversations, login, search, file uploads, voice mode, image generation and more. OpenAI confirmed on its status page that it is investigating elevated errors affecting at least 15 components, including ChatGPT Work, Deep Research, Agent, Atlas, and Connectors/Apps.
Anthropic confirmed an outage affecting multiple Claude models starting around 9:41 AM ET on September 3, 2026. Users of Mythos/Fable 5.1, Mythos/Fable 5, Opus 5, Opus 4.8, and Opus 4.6 experienced elevated errors and failed requests. Anthropic identified the cause and said it was working on a fix, with the issue still unresolved as of 10:49 AM ET.
Nvidia announced a deal to purchase Hugging Face, the widely used open-source hub for AI models, datasets and developer tools, for roughly $12.93 billion. CEO Jensen Huang said the platform will stay open to all developers regardless of hardware or cloud provider, and that Nvidia compute won't be a requirement to use it. The acquisition follows weeks of reports that Hugging Face was exploring a sale near this valuation.
Awol Vision unveiled the LuxVision, an ultra-short throw projector that uses optical lens shift rather than digital keystone correction to preserve image detail. The device can produce a 6000-lumen, 120-inch 4K image at 120Hz from just 7.5 inches away from the wall, and includes gaming-friendly features like Dolby Vision Gaming HDR, VRR, and roughly 1ms input lag. It launches around October for $5,999, with preorder discounts starting September 5th.