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Sep 03, 2026 51

NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B

NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source model repository’s platform and infrastructur...

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Sep 03, 2026 41

ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude all went down at the same time

OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Anthropic's Claude all began experiencing issues around the same time on Thursday. At about 11AM ET, Ch...

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Sep 03, 2026 47

Google says its AI weather model is getting better

Google is rolling out an updated AI weather model that's supposed to be more accurate, especially when it comes to predicting rain and sn...

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Sep 03, 2026 40

Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees ou...

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Sep 03, 2026 66

Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

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Sep 03, 2026 42

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, d...

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Sep 02, 2026 39

The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical convers...

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Sep 02, 2026 37

Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

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Sep 02, 2026 57

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals 

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue t...

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Sep 02, 2026 53

I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.

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Sep 02, 2026 50

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that...

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Sep 02, 2026 48

Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than G...