Hugging Face built a $4.5 billion empire on free AI models. Now Nvidia is buying it for $12.9 billion
Thomas Wolf has spent a decade convincing the world that open-source AI is not a charity project. On August 27, 2026, the market settled the argument. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the company fa [...]
Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software
Pollen Robotics has unveiled a bipedal robot called Microduck, at an introductory price of $399 before taxes and shipping. The Bordeaux company is owned by the AI platform Hugging Face. Its new machin [...]
Renesas Joins Autoware Foundation to Bring Open-Source AI to ADAS Platforms
The Autoware Foundation said on September 1, 2026, that Renesas Electronics has joined the organization as a member of its highest membership tier, in a collaboration aimed at bringing the foundation& [...]
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 arrive with a 75% cost reduction for Fable cache reads
It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models [...]
Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release the weights for version 1.2. The AI Act exempts genuinely open-source general-purp [...]
Anker's new AeroFit 2 earbuds can switch between open-ear and ANC form factors
Open-ear wireless earbuds are great for running, when keeping some awareness of the world around you is necessary, but not so good when you want premium audio features that require a good seal, like a [...]
Nvidia’s Cosmos Reason 2 aims to bring reasoning VLMs into the physical world
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said last year that we are now entering the age of physical AI. While the company continues to offer LLMs for software use cases, Nvidia is increasingly positioning itself as a [...]
Enterprises lost Claude Fable 5 for a few weeks. New data shows two-thirds had already built their hedge
Two-thirds of enterprises have hedged their AI model strategy, and the past few weeks of controversy around Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model showed why that posture has gone mainstream. On June 12, [...]