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Researchers analyzed body parts, likely hair, incorporated into ancient Egyptian artworks and traced their origin to sources that differ from long-held assumptions about local production. The findings suggest a more complex supply chain behind these artifacts than previously believed.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A tech journalist with no coding background says he used AI coding assistants, including a paid ChatGPT Pro subscription, to build working iOS source ports of Duke Nukem 3D and Serious Sam in under a week, and Morrowind after several weeks of iteration. The resulting builds reportedly run smoothly with touch controls and take advantage of features like 120Hz ProMotion displays, all built by adapting existing open-source projects rather than writing original code from scratch.
Martin von Zweigbergk, who built the Jujutsu version control system while at Google, has been named chief technology officer of East River Source Control, a startup developing next-generation version control platforms. He will oversee engineering there while continuing as a core maintainer of Jujutsu, which remains open source under Apache 2.0. ERSC's storage product is set to enter private beta later this month.