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Filipino tennis player Alex Eala, seeded 17th at the U.S. Open, is drawing outsized fan and brand attention even as top contenders like Sabalenka, Gauff, Świątek, Osaka, and Serena Williams dominate headlines on court. Her rising popularity is being framed as a commercial win that could outlast this year's tournament results.
Hugging Face started as a teen chatbot app before pivoting to become a leading hub for open-source AI models and tools. Nvidia has now placed a $13 billion valuation bet on the company, underscoring its shift from novelty app to core AI infrastructure player.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the widely used open AI model distribution platform, for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face will keep its brand and remain open to third-party models, clouds, and hardware, according to Nvidia.
Startup Abliteration.ai now hosts modified, open-weight AI models—including Z.ai's GLM-5.3—with safety refusals removed, letting users query them via browser or API. TechCrunch tested the free web version and got the model to produce password-stealing code and instructions for culturing a dangerous pathogen. The company, founded late last year and incorporated in March, frames this as a service for red-teaming and offensive security testing.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire AI platform Hugging Face for roughly $12.9bn, one of its largest acquisitions to date. Hugging Face, used by over 18 million developers and hosting more than three million AI models, operates as a major hub for sharing open-source AI tools. Nvidia said the platform will remain open and won't require users to adopt its chips or services.
IFM has launched K2 Horizon, a family of six models ranging from 0.9B to 375B-A23B parameters, released under Apache 2.0 with datasets under licenses like ODC-BY. Unlike typical open-weight releases, IFM is publishing the entire training lifecycle—intermediate checkpoints, data recipes, architecture details, training code, logs, and evaluations—alongside final weights. The smallest models (0.9B, 3.7B, 7B) reportedly set new state-of-the-art benchmarks for their size class.
Nvidia confirmed Thursday it has struck a deal to purchase Hugging Face, the widely used open-source AI model repository, for nearly $13 billion. The announcement ends weeks of speculation about a potential acquisition. CEO Jensen Huang pledged the platform will remain open to the broader AI community after the deal closes.
Nvidia has agreed to purchase AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion, a huge jump from the $7 billion valuation the startup rejected from Nvidia just last year to stay independent. The chipmaker says the acquisition will accelerate adoption of open-weight AI models, which let developers download and customize systems rather than rely on proprietary offerings from firms like OpenAI and Anthropic. The deal, expected to close by 2027, surpasses Nvidia's 2020 purchase of Mellanox as its biggest acquisition to date.
The LTO Consortium, backed by HPE, IBM, and Quantum, reports that shipped capacity of LTO-compatible tape media rose 57% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026. The surge follows a 9% dip in 2025 and comes after 2024's record 176.5 exabytes shipped, with LTO-9 tapes driving much of the latest growth. Quantum's CEO attributes the rebound to enterprises needing durable, cost-effective long-term storage as AI-driven data volumes explode.
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.