Playing hard to get usually costs you the deal. In this case it cost Nvidia an extra $12.4 billion. Hugging Face turned down a $500 million offer from Nvidia last year — this week Nvidia came back with $12.93 billion, and this time everyone…

Every so often a new model shows up, aces every test in the room, and casually asks if there's an extra-credit assignment. Meet GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's newest release, which posted scores so clean you'd assume grading was optional. The Repor…

Nothing quite says "we're serious about the future" like the world's most valuable oil company signing paperwork with a company that builds computers cooled colder than deep space. Quantinuum and Saudi Aramco inked a non-binding memorandum …

Two companies that have spent years teaching machines to talk just decided they'd rather do it together. SoundHound AI officially closed its acquisition of LivePerson on September 4th, and the resulting company can now talk to your customer…

Nothing says "move fast and break things" quite like a code execution bug that lets strangers root your server just by asking nicely. Langflow, one of the most popular open-source tools for building AI agent workflows, is having exactly tha…

Somewhere out there, a botnet is knocking on 440,000 doors and not even bothering to be polite about it. Two wildly popular WordPress plugins just found out that "upload a file" and "upload literally any file including a PHP web shell" are,…

Every few months a tech company whispers "this one's different" right before shipping something that is, in fact, mostly the same thing but faster. GPT-6 Astra might actually be the exception — or at least OpenAI is betting its entire PR bu…

Somewhere in Mountain View, a marketing exec looked at "guy survives the Arctic for content" and thought: this, but with an AI assistant whispering in his ear the whole time. Google just signed the internet's biggest creator for a multi-yea…

Nothing says "we're back" quite like successfully lobbing a 2,300-kilogram satellite toward geosynchronous orbit on your first try since things went sideways. India's space agency ISRO just did exactly that, and after a rocky start to the y…

Nvidia has spent the last few years selling everyone the shovels in the AI gold rush. Now it's bought the map. On September 3, Nvidia confirmed it's acquiring Hugging Face — the platform practically every developer on Earth uses to find, sh…