Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face, the popular AI platform for sharing and building with open-source models, in what could be one of the chip giant’s biggest deals yet. The two parties have had acquisition conversations in recent weeks about a deal that would value Hugging Face at more than $13 billion,
Jensen Huang is feeling spendy. In the span of a few weeks, the Nvidia CEO has committed billions to deals and investments — with more potentially right around the corner. The spending spree shows how far Nvidia is expanding beyond chips and raises a bigger question: how much of the AI ecosystem does it want
This week, Anthropic announced that it will be adding in a watermark to its outputs, making it highly detectable to tell if something was “processed by Claude.” This should strike fear into the hearts of any students who have become addicted to the sweet, sweet nectar of AI-written term papers and homework. Or anyone using
Operating at AI speed is not easy. At OpenAI, a special process—and a magic word—helps employees instantly cut through layers of bureaucracy and clear bottlenecks slowing things down. It’s called “friction.” And it has the power to supersede just about anything a team is doing, often carrying the force of CEO Sam Altman or President
Veteran OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday that he’s leaving the company, the latest departure at the AI juggernaut as it orients itself toward an initial public offering. Lightcap served as the company’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer during his eight-year tenure, and most recently led a special projects team at OpenAI.
It was concerns over phishing online, rather than fishing outside off stump, that nearly scuppered Caleb Falconer’s hopes of a contract in The Hundred. At the time the Middlesex batting all-rounder did not have an agent, had not yet made a professional appearance and was thousands of miles from home, away with England at the
