Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face, the popular AI platform for sharing and building with open-source models, in what could be one of the chip giant’s biggest deals yet. The two parties have had acquisition conversations in recent weeks about a deal that wouldvalue Hugging Face at more than $13 billion, according … Devamını oku

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk … Devamını oku

Zohran and the Short Link

If you live in NYC and are anywhere on social media, you’ll likely have seen Zohran’s videos. Oftentimes, his videos announce a new project or initiative or event. If the announcement is something that you can actively participate in, the videos also always end with a short, top-level link:nyc.gov/{initiative}.

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

Anthropic has signed a deal to rent about $45 billion in AI compute fromNscale, a British AI infrastructure company, a source familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. Nscale, founded only in 2024, has already cut deals withthe likes of Microsoft, and will supply Anthropic with compute via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips, itsnew state-of-the-art chip system. … Devamını oku

Dallas startup enriches Uranium

CTO Robert Mendelsohn (left) and CEO Eric Olszewski (right) stand before Fortitude, Actinide’s second-generation calutron, estimated to deliver roughly half the throughput of the entire U.S. federal calutron fleet in a single machine. Dallas, TX, August 26 —Actinide, an advanced materials company that designs, builds, and operates its own isotope separation machines, has become the … Devamını oku

How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

OpenAI is the original frontier lab. Its latest publicly released model, GPT-5.6, is one of the most capable and efficient on the market. Its desktop app for agentic coding and workplace tasks has seen its user base grow by about 15 million subscribers in the last two months. OpenAI has also already filed to go … Devamını oku

Tailcat

“Tailscale without Tailscale, by Tailscale” Tailcat is a remix of Tailscale open source pieces to act likenetcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane, without Tailscale’s control plane. Tailscale’s data plane (magicsock, internally) gives you point-to-point WireGuard®-encrypted tunnels between two machines with DERP as the NAT-hole-punching communication side channel and the ultimate relay-of-last-resort if NAT traversal fails. … Devamını oku