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Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal raises fears of a more siloed open-model ecosystem
The Register's Kettle podcast weighs whether the leading open model host can stay neutral under its new owner.
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Funding, deals, regulation, and policy that shape how AI reaches the world.
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Authors dispute publisher claims on Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement payouts
Writers report publishers claiming books whose rights reverted years ago, as $3,000-per-title payments begin to move.
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Thailand halts all datacenter construction and approvals pending new rules
The government admits it lacks basic data on how many facilities operate, and gives operators a week to report.
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Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training on their journalism
The joint complaint calls generative AI a snake eating its own tail and alleges paywall-bypassing scraping, lost traffic, and fabricated attributions.
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AI industry pours $265M into US midterms as data center backlash spreads
Trump backs data centers on Truth Social despite polling that shows most Americans oppose them, complicating Republican races in November.
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TCS unit HyperVault commits up to Rs 70,000 crore for a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad
The 264-acre site is meant for frontier AI labs and hyperscalers; the filing promises green energy and water-neutral design without defining either.
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US and China prepare first official AI safety talks of Trump's second term
Beijing meeting in mid-September would put AI-directed cyberattacks and alleged model distillation on the table ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.
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OpenAI commits $1 billion to subsidize Daybreak for critical infrastructure defenders
The program targets under-resourced utilities and local governments, with American companies first in line and eligibility details still sparse.
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NVIDIA agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
Jensen Huang pledges the model hub will stay open and hardware-neutral, while critics call the deal an antitrust magnet.
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Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
The chipmaker says the model hub will stay open to every framework, cloud and compute platform, with closing expected in the first half of 2027.
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Crusoe signs reported $13 billion AI cloud contract with Jane Street
The five-year GPU deal is the data center startup's most prominent customer win and reportedly boosted interest in its latest fundraising.