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AI Summary
- Nvidia continues its dominance, reportedly nearing a $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face and tripling its chip orders from Amazon due to soaring demand, highlighting its critical role in the AI hardware landscape.
- OpenAI faces scrutiny with a report on a Hugging Face breach and executive departures, while also planning to introduce ads on ChatGPT, signaling a shift in its monetization strategy.
- Meta is settling a significant $18 billion child-safety lawsuit by agreeing to implement stricter age-verification tech and major changes to how children interact with its platforms.
- The tech industry grapples with AI's broader implications, from Bill Gates proposing robot taxes to address job displacement and ethical concerns to Google's Gemini facing branding challenges.
- Cybersecurity remains a major concern, with Boston Scientific experiencing global disruptions from a cyberattack and the US government seizing domains used by a Chinese botnet targeting critical infrastructure.
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TechCrunch
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OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
an hour ago
by Ivan Mehta
AI, Ads, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Go, OpenAIOpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
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Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition
6 hours ago
by Connie Loizos
AI, TCNvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would let Nvidia both protect its chip empire and jump back into the cloud business.
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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
12 hours ago
by Lucas Ropek
AI, Startups, Funding, In Brief, instinctThe startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring privacy concerns.
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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
13 hours ago
by Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec
AI, Enterprise, Amazon, nvidiaAmazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended partnerships stretches beyond buying more chips.
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Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well
14 hours ago
by Amanda Silberling
Government & Policy, Social, MetaThe historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
Hacker News
- Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B 12 hours ago
- Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck 2 hours ago
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The Verge
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Of course Samsung made a 1,100Hz gaming monitor
an hour ago
by Jess Weatherbed
Gaming, News, PC Gaming, Samsung, TechSamsung announced its upcoming lineup of Odyssey gaming monitors today at Gamescom, and says that several will feature "world-first innovations" across display speeds and design. This includes the 27-inch Odyssey G6 it initially unveiled in December, which now features a 1,100Hz refresh rate, alongside new OLED Odyssey G9, G8, and G7 updates for 2027. The Odyssey G6 G60H's upgraded 1,100Hz final launch specification is a smidge faster than the already ridiculous 1,040Hz refresh rate that Samsung announced it would have at CES 2026. Little has changed otherwise, so this is still a dual-mode gaming monitor with an IPS-based display and
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Xiaomi’s new Redmi phone lasts for three days on a single charge
2 hours ago
by Dominic Preston
Gadgets, Mobile, News, Phones, Tech, XiaomiThe Note 17 Pro Max also has a photochromic design, which is revealed by sunlight. The 9,210mAh dual-cell battery in the new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the biggest that Xiaomi has fit in any phone it's sold in Europe - and remarkably, in some other markets the phone comes with an even larger 10,000mAh single-cell design. As you can probably guess, this is a silicon-carbon battery either way, one with a high 16 percent silicon content, meaning it's more energy-dense than most. It's allowed Xiaomi to fit this huge battery into a phone that's basically the same size
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Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company
15 hours ago
by Stevie Bonifield
AI, Business, News, Nvidia, TechNvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion in overall revenue in the past quarter, a jump of over $10 billion from the previous quarter. Its data center revenue alone more than doubled year-over-year to a record $89 billion, and the company's profits more than doubled to $59.7 billion. Nvidia's "edge computing" category,
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OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
15 hours ago
by Hayden Field
AI, Analysis, OpenAI, ReportOpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to find out about any of it. Over a month later, two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the incident and OpenAI's response, many of
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All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens
17 hours ago
by Emma Roth
Facebook, Instagram, Meta, Policy, Politics, Report, Social Media, TechMeta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement , Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. The settlement stems from a nationwide lawsuit alleging Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap failed to protect children and made their platforms "addictive" by design. A group of 51 US states and territories signed the agreement, including New York, New Jersey, California, Nevada, South Carolina,
Wired
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Best Posture Correctors for Better Body Alignment (2026)
2 hours ago
by Boutayna Chokrane
Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / Products / Health and Fitness, Gear / Products / Lifestyle, Sit, PrettyYou’re hunched over your desk and phone for hours. I rounded up gadgets, a DIY trick, and even some yoga advice to help you straighten up.
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Submit Your Questions: The Great Data Center Backlash
2 hours ago
by Tim Marchman, Maxwell Zeff, Molly Taft, Hugo Lowell
Science, Science / Environment, Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Politics, Livestream, AMAYou have questions about data centers, and WIRED has answers. Join our livestream on September 10 and our panel of experts will tell you everything you need to know.
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Stop Touching Your Keyboard. Use This AI-Powered Microphone Instead
2 hours ago
by Julian Chokkattu
Gear, Gear / Gear News and Events, Talk, to, MeThe Relay Q, due next year, is the latest attempt to reposition voice as the most seamless method for human-computer interaction.
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The Best Google Pixel Phones of 2026: Comparison, Features, and Accessories
3 hours ago
by Julian Chokkattu, Simon Hill
Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / Products / Phones, Buying, GuideLet us help you choose the right Pixel phone. Plus, check out our Pixel accessory recommendations and smart software tricks to try.
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The UK Power Grid Has a Phantom Data Center Problem
7 hours ago
by Joel Khalili
Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Ghost, in, the, MachineThe UK’s energy regulator is using a variety of tricks to keep speculative data center projects from plugging into the power grid. The country’s AI ambitions hang in the balance.