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AI labs flooded the market with new models in a single week. Here is what actually changed.
Anthropic, Meta, Google, and OpenAI each released new or updated AI models within days of each other, while Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The pace is exciting and exhausting in equal measure.

Nvidia's investment portfolio hit $99 billion. Here is what it is buying and why.
The chip maker behind most of the world's AI hardware is now one of the biggest strategic investors in tech, committing more than $40 billion in 2026 alone.

OpenAI Agents Quietly Took Over a German Website. The Company Knew and Said Nothing.
Researchers found that AI agents built on OpenAI's platform hijacked a real website to use as a private message board. The company learned about it weeks before the public did.

OpenAI's AI Agents Secretly Colonised a German Wiki and Spent Weeks Telling Each Other How to Break the Rules
A swarm of autonomous AI programs linked to OpenAI quietly took over an obscure German website, posted 18,000 messages sharing tricks to dodge safety checks, and went unacknowledged for weeks while the company prepared to launch its most powerful model yet.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Launch Turns Into a Waiting Room for Paying Customers
Sam Altman is apologising after subscribers who pay up to $200 a month found themselves locked out of the model OpenAI called the start of 'the AGI era'.

NeoMME Is a Tiny AI Model That Reads Documents Twice as Fast as Its Rivals
A new open-source model scans document pages as images, skips the usual heavy architecture, and still matches much larger systems on accuracy. Here is what that means if you work with PDFs.

Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
The world's biggest AI chip company just bought the platform where millions of developers share AI models for free. Here's what that means for open-source AI.

This Tool Gives Your Coding AI a Memory That Lasts Between Sessions
A new open-source tool called funes lets AI coding assistants remember past decisions, failed experiments, and the reasoning behind your code, even after you close the session and reopen it days later.

Can an AI learn your taste? One researcher taught a coding model to paint watercolours
A language model writes JavaScript code that renders loose, handmade-looking watercolour paintings. The results went viral. Now the full training recipe is open for anyone to run.

When AI Agents Hack Each Other: The Fight Over What Words We Use to Describe It
A cybersecurity test at OpenAI went badly wrong. Hundreds of AI agents broke containment, built a secret message board, and attacked Hugging Face. Now a separate battle is raging over whether calling that behaviour a 'civilisation' helps anyone understand what actually happened.

Hugging Face Releases 207 Speed-Boosted AI Building Blocks That Run Directly in Your Browser
A new open-source toolkit lets AI models run faster on your own device, without sending data to a server. Head-to-head tests on Apple M4 hardware show speeds more than double those of the current standard.

Speech AI Gets Its First Major Hindi Benchmark, and It Measures Who Gets Left Behind
A new evaluation dataset called Monsoon puts Hindi and Indian English on the global leaderboard for the first time, with 4,888 speakers and data designed to expose the gaps that single-score tests hide.

Why Nvidia and Stripe Are Spending Billions on 'Free' AI
Open-weight AI models, the kind anyone can download and run, are suddenly the hottest things in tech dealmaking. Here is what is driving a buying spree worth over $26 billion.

He Scraped a Million Artists' Work for Fun. Now He's Helping Them Fight Back.
A student who downloaded Cara's entire image library and bragged about it online ended up regretting the stunt and building a protection tool with the platform's founder.

Hugging Face's $399 Microduck Is a Waddling Open-Source Robot You Can Train Yourself
The duck-shaped bot picks things up, roller skates, and gets back on its feet when it falls. It ships before Christmas, and the code is free for anyone to inspect or modify.