Reports say Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for roughly $12.9 billion, though no signed agreement was confirmed. Observers say the acquisition would strengthen Nvidia’s position in open-source AI and give a route back into cloud services.
Hugging Face announced Microduck, a 25 cm open-source robot priced at $399 that ships before Christmas. The device includes camera, lidar and two IMUs, supports reinforcement-learning workflows, and its SDK and RL training stack are published on GitHub.
Amazon and Nvidia expanded their partnership with an order for 2 million Nvidia GPUs for AWS data centers in 2027–2028. Nvidia said demand exceeded expectations; neither company disclosed financial terms.
Anthropic has agreed to rent about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, delivered via Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips and expected to begin powering services in late 2027. The six-year arrangement is reported to draw capacity from Nscale’s West Virginia data center.
loveholidays has opened its codebases to product managers, designers and commercial teams using Codex and a tool called Search Playground. The company reports higher AI-assisted change rates, faster deployments and measurable cost savings.
Ringg raised $10M from Peak XV Partners as an extension of its Series A, bringing the round to $15.5M. The India-based startup, processing 20 million call attempts monthly, is shifting from simple outbound calls to more complex enterprise workflows such as bookings and KYC.
Stability AI secured $76 million in a Series B round, lifting its total fundraising to $232 million. The round includes investments from entertainment and gaming companies; CEO Prem Akkaraju called it “an affirmation of our vision.”
Gamma has bought Accel-backed design startup Lica; Lica’s co-founders will lead a new design research division. Lica, founded in 2023 and later backed with $4 million, moved from screenshot-to-presentation tools to e‑commerce marketing videos.
OpenAI says it banned ChatGPT accounts tied to an influence operation that promoted the International Burke Institute (IBI). The IBI site, registered in February 2025, contained copied or misattributed articles and a “sovereignty index” that praised Russia, while Telegram channels had 10–20k followe
On August 24, 2026, OpenAI announced the GPT‑5.6 model family is available in Kiro, a development agent for AI-native coding. OpenAI and AWS say the models improve code quality and cost-efficiency in long-running tasks, with testing showing an ~82% cost reduction for Terra.