Nvidia has agreed to purchase Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Data reported Wednesday night time, citing a supply aware of the matter. Enterprise Insider, which first reported over the weekend that Hugging Face was fielding takeover curiosity, reported Wednesday night time that the talks — which might worth the corporate at greater than $13…
As data center developers compete for a cut of the hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the artificial intelligence industry, the queue to join the UK’s power grid has become jammed with projects that will likely never get built. The snarl is exacerbating already years-long wait times for viable projects, and it’s messing with…
Google Research and UNSW Sydney have released GlucoFM, a self-supervised foundation model for continuous glucose monitoring. Its core move is a split. Existing CGM models — CGMformer, GluFormer, CGM-JEPA — encode a glucose trace as one entangled sequence. GlucoFM decomposes it into a slow physiological “state” stream and a transient “event” stream, keeps the observation…
Meta reached an $18 billion settlement on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by 29 U.S. states concerning children’s safety. The settlement is historic in scale as Meta agrees with a group of 52 attorneys general to implement sweeping changes to how minors use Instagram and Facebook. The settlement “gives the AGs what they want, which…
Dan Osborn was ending up his fourth city corridor final Sunday, he says, when a “hardcore MAGA” man approached him. Osborn, who’s operating for the US Senate in Nebraska as an unbiased against Republican incumbent Pete Ricketts, stated that he and the person didn’t have a lot frequent floor—at first. “Then I stated, ‘Hey, what’s…
Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers. These GPUs, which are designed to handle the heavy compute demands of training and running AI models, include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and…
Intuition, a startup based solely final yr and helmed by a 23-year-old, has managed to journey the wave of AI enthusiasm towards a gargantuan valuation over the course of the summer season. The corporate, which presents an AI assistant that has impressed enthusiasm amongst its early customers, told the Wall Avenue Journal on Wednesday that…
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series and the cheapest capable coding model the lab has shipped. It is a mixture-of-experts model with 320B total parameters and 18B active per token, a 1,048,576-token context window, and image and video input — released under an MIT license with weights on…
Some of the new events this year would be too simple for human athletes, but they were designed to tax the robots’ brains as much as their brawn. These included plugging cables into sockets and slowly depositing a piece of garbage in a trash can inside a mock bedroom. Tellex explains that training robots to…
Anthropic has signed a deal to hire about $45 billion in AI compute from Nscale, a British AI infrastructure firm, a supply acquainted with the deal advised TechCrunch. Nscale, based solely in 2024, has already minimize offers with the likes of Microsoft, and can provide Anthropic with compute by way of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin chips,…
