Nvidia is reportedly in talks to acquire Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $13 billion, following Nvidia’s $6 billion agreement with Poolside and Stripe’s acquisition of OpenRouter for more than $7 billion.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s directives to stop using and bar Anthropic’s Claude AI were illegal and constituted “unlawful retaliation” violating the First Amendment, and vacated the government actions requiring agencies to permanently stop using Anthropic and banning defense contractors from doing unrelated business with it.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Moderna and Merck said their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine (Moderna’s intismeran autogene) plus Merck’s Keytruda met Phase 3 melanoma trial goals, with Moderna shares up as much as 177% (adding about $44B in market value) and Merck shares up more than 12% to an all-time high.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Only 15% of organizations have reached scaled, orchestrated multi-agent deployments, despite 43% expanding AI agent deployments across functions and 74% of leaders expecting half of business processes to be redesigned around AI agents by 2030.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Broadcom is in talks to raise $70 billion to $80 billion in debt for a chip financing deal, with a senior tranche expected to be about $45 billion and a junior tranche about $35 billion (figures reportedly flexible).
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Aristotle Value Equity Fund’s Q2 2026 letter argues that Alphabet (GOOGL) can benefit from AI by using AI-powered features in Google Search to boost engagement while monetizing through advertising and integrations rather than relying mainly on paid subscriptions.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Modders have extracted an early, unofficial DLSS 5 “Neural Rendering” build from an NBA 2K27 early-access version and released mods that apply the AI upscaling/lighting effects to games including Control, GTA: San Andreas, and GTA V.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Verge
Okta reported fiscal second-quarter revenue of $805 million (+11%), with subscription revenue of $793 million (+12%) and remaining performance obligations up 17% to nearly $4.86 billion, while citing demand for identity controls for autonomous AI agents as AI “digital workers” create new security risk.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
LibreOffice 26.8 is available as a native local app on Windows, Linux, and macOS and makes a point of having “no artificial intelligence.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Register
Nvidia has been “matchmaking” GPU buyers with Nordics data-center operators that have available capacity, by asking how it can help them obtain land, power, and build compute “as fast as possible,” according to Nvidia CFO Colette Kress.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia paused parts of a financing program for small AI cloud firms less than two months after announcing it, after reporting fiscal Q2 revenue of $96.2B (+106%) and adjusted EPS of $2.22 (+120%).
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Rothschild & Co Asset Management’s LongRun Equity Strategy rose 7.6% in Q2 2026 (EUR, unhedged) versus its benchmark’s 15.8%, and cited ASML as a top contributor, saying ASML is “one of the best-positioned businesses within the AI cohort” because its lithography tools are mission critical and unique.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Intuit cut its full-time workforce by 17% to support AI implementation, following slightly lower-than-expected TurboTax revenues.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
91% of employees say their organization is falling short of reaching the value AI can deliver, according to Thomson Reuters’ 2026 Future of Professionals Report surveying 1,800 professionals.
Aug 28, 2026 ·ZDNet
Andreessen Horowitz launched a $1.1 billion “Machine Age” fund to accelerate the physical buildout of AI by investing in AI infrastructure like chips, memory, data centers, and robots.
Aug 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
AI impersonation enables scammers to rapidly create and distribute synthetic audio, video, image, and email that can manipulate voters and erode trust ahead of the November 2026 midterms.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
CNET
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal, citing “unlawful retaliation” under the First Amendment and violations of due process under the Fifth Amendment.
Aug 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A US federal judge ruled the Pentagon illegally blacklisted Anthropic by partly relying on claims about Claude that the company “couldn’t actually” do, calling the national-security rationale “entirely unfounded.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vice president Sandhya Devanathan is leaving Meta to join OpenAI, where she will oversee consumer growth, enterprise adoption and partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations across Southeast Asia and Australia.
Aug 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
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Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
