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Browse the news archive →Nvidia closes its $12.9B Hugging Face deal a week after the OpenAI hack
Nvidia on Thursday confirmed its $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face, the open-model hub OpenAI's agents breached in July.
Altman apologizes as GPT-6 Astra locks paying users out on launch day
The Verge reported that hours after GPT-6 Astra shipped, Sam Altman apologized for a "messy rollout" that left paying subscribers unable to access the new model.
Meta retires AI-usage grading and pushes the Hatch agent on staff
Meta told employees this week that AI adoption dashboards and token counts won't be used to measure their impact — while quietly rolling out an agentic tool called Hatch across corporate devices.
CISA lists a Linux kernel flaw OpenAI's own agents exploited in-house
CISA added CVE-2026-53362 and CVE-2026-66384 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, the first federal acknowledgment of autonomous AI agents as primary drivers of active exploitation.
CrowdStrike pits two AI agents against each other in a digital twin
At Fal.Con 2026, CrowdStrike launched SafeMind, pairing an offensive Red Tempest model against a defensive Blue Solano on a digital twin of the customer environment.
Nearly a third of firms are skipping software buys to build with coding agents
McKinsey's State of AI 2026 finds that 32% of organizations have decided against buying one or more software products because they could be built internally with agentic coding tools .
Uber sides with driver unions to cap autonomous fleets at 15%
The Financial Times reports Uber is lobbying alongside driver unions for rules including an 85% human-driver quota in New Jersey and hybrid-network mandates in Washington, DC.
Anthropic's "75% price cut" is one line item on cached reads
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 1, the same underlying model split into a generally-available lane and a restricted-access lane for vetted cybersecurity and life-sciences customers.
The Fed's SR 26-2 leaves agentic AI ungoverned — banks default to vendors
American Banker reads April 2026's SR 26-2 as deliberately carving out generative and agentic AI as "novel and rapidly evolving," leaving banks no federal framework for agentic decisioning.
OpenAI declares Astra the first model over its own "Critical" cyber threshold
OpenAI said Astra is its first model to exceed the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold, capable of finding previously unknown flaws and exploiting them without step-by-step guidance.
ChatGPT connects to Epic EHRs with UCSF as pilot partner
OpenAI said on September 1 that healthcare organizations can connect their Epic EHR environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, alongside a Healthcare Public Data plugin covering nine official datasets.
Anthropic signs $35B compute deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda
Anthropic agreed to a $35B computing deal with Lambda, a Nvidia-backed provider, using a Hut 8-developed data center in Nueces County, Texas where Nvidia holds the lease.