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.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-03
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.
blogs.nvidia.com
· 2026-09-03
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.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-03
Nango, a Y Combinator W23 startup building open-source developer infrastructure, is opening new positions spanning engineering, product and go-to-market teams. The company operates as a fully remote organization, with roles available in San Francisco or remote locations. Its team includes veterans from prior developer infrastructure companies.
nango.dev
· 2026-09-02
An open-source project uses autonomous Claude 5.1 agent swarms to research, model, and validate browser-based 3D reconstructions of real-world locations, starting with San Francisco's Union Square. The system generates buildings, storefronts, traffic, and pedestrians from open data like OpenStreetMap and public imagery, packaged as runnable Three.js applications rather than relying on a game engine or proprietary 3D tiles.
github.com
· 2026-09-02
A professional has published a personal AI usage policy stating they do not currently use generative AI or large language models in their code, design, or correspondence. The policy, first drafted in mid-2025 and updated in May 2026, says they will avoid AI wherever practical but will still collaborate with clients and colleagues who use it, provided they are not held accountable for AI-generated portions of joint work.
dbushell.com
· 2026-09-02
Fomu is a tiny programmable device that plugs directly into a USB-A port, combining an FPGA chip, four touch pads, and an RGB LED in a compact plastic case. It ships with enough RAM and storage to run Python natively, while also supporting a RISC-V softcore and other softcores like LM32 and OpenRISC, all programmable through a fully open-source toolchain without accounts, NDAs, or heavy installers.
crowdsupply.com
· 2026-09-02
OpenAI announced its upcoming Astra model has crossed what the company calls a critical cybersecurity threshold, meaning it can independently discover and exploit unknown software vulnerabilities without human guidance. The model reportedly scored perfectly on ExploitBench and found two zero-day flaws in an internal test, prompting OpenAI to limit access to its most advanced capabilities and add extra monitoring before release.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-01
GoKawiil's summer analysis of Hugging Face data shows public model repositories rose from 2.43M to 2.96M between January and August 2026, with datasets and Spaces also expanding sharply. Despite that growth, download activity remains concentrated in a tiny fraction of repositories, and Chinese labs including Moonshot, MiniMax, Xiaomi and Z.ai are releasing massive models, some exceeding a trillion parameters, without first publishing smaller versions.
huggingface.co
· 2026-09-01
California's Assembly passed Bill 1856, amending the Digital Age Assurance Act to exclude operating systems and software meant to be freely copied, redistributed or modified from mandatory age-verification requirements. This shields most Linux distributions, though derivative projects with proprietary layers like Valve's SteamOS may still need to comply. The bill also fixes the DAAA's overly broad definition of 'user' and restricts sharing of age data to law enforcement requests.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-01
Android launched publicly in 2008 on the HTC-made T-Mobile G1, a bulky device with a sliding screen and awkward physical keyboard, built hastily to counter Apple's iPhone. Google had bought Android and its creator Andy Rubin in 2005 for $50 million, originally envisioning it as camera software before pivoting to mobile after the iPhone's 2007 debut spurred urgency.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-01
Tailscale has launched tailcat, an open-source Go package and CLI tool that lets developers move data between two points using the company's underlying network technology—WireGuard encryption, NAT traversal, and DERP relay servers—without any of Tailscale's account system, control plane, or administrative layer. It functions like the classic netcat utility but routes traffic through Tailscale's magicsock networking stack, and can run entirely independent of Tailscale as a company if users host their own DERP relay server.
tailscale.com
· 2026-09-01
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