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This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Thursday. Breaking news this morning: Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion. Stock futures are mixed this morning after a winning day on Wall Street. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:
1. Summit up
Alex Karp, chief executive officer of Palantir Technologies, during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. Cornell Watson | Bloomberg | Getty Images
The G20 wrapped up its two-day Innovation Ministerial yesterday, where technology leaders and government representatives talked artificial intelligence, data centers and tariffs. Here are some of the biggest headlines out of the gathering: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that AI will "democratize intelligence" for G20 countries and called the technology "the great equalizer."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, meanwhile, said using AI is a "non-negotiable" for countries, comparing the adoption of AI to the adoption of electricity.
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On the data center front, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown said he "really loved" President Donald Trump's Monday Truth Social post, in which the president said communities who opposed data centers "want to end up being backwards and poor."
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that data centers will "bring prosperity" and are "getting a bad rap." He also downplayed the facilities' water consumption.
Catch up on all the biggest moments here.
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