Artificial Intelligence

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Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI

Hugging Face acquisition rumours ended on Thursday 3 September 2026, when Jensen Huang published a blog post confirming that Nvidia has agreed to buy the platform for $12,930,300,000. Not “roughly $13 billion” — that exact figure, down to the hundred thousand. It is the second-largest deal in Nvidia’s history, behind only the $20 billion it […]

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Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Mythos 5.1 is the version of Anthropic’s newest frontier model that almost nobody is allowed to use. In September 2026 the company announced Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 together, and it is unusually direct about what separates them: nothing at all, except the safeguards wrapped around the weights. Fable 5.1 is generally available. […]

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Pangram’s Max Spero on Why AI Detection Is Harder Than ‘Real or Fake’

AI-assisted writing is now the hardest thing on the internet to label, and that is the argument Pangram co-founder and chief executive Max Spero brought to TechCrunch’s Equity podcast on 2 September 2026. The 24-minute episode, produced by Theresa Loconsolo and hosted by Rebecca Bellan, was published under a blunt headline: AI detection is harder […]

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