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The editor's 6 picks from the 54 stories AIBriefs curated that day.
NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, per Jensen Huang's announcement. Hugging Face stays an open platform supporting multi-cloud, multi-accelerator deployment, and NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on it.
The European Commission classified ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms/Search Engines under the Digital Services Act, triggering tougher obligations like removing illegal content and protecting minors, with fines up to 6% of global revenue. They have until end of December 2026 to comply.
Seoul named three tech consortia to deliver uncapped generative AI to all citizens under "AI for All," sharing up to 512 Nvidia B200 chips. Beta testing starts in September, with full rollout later this year.
The open-weight multimodal MoE activates only 6B parameters per token, pairing a 125B backbone with a 51B N-gram embedding table and a 4B multi-token prediction module. It has a native 262,144-token context window, extensible to 1M tokens with YaRN.
In a CBS Sunday Morning interview with Jo Ling Kent, the Nvidia CEO called AI doomsday warnings "irresponsible" and "not grounded in facts," and said calls from Dario Amodei and Sam Altman to slow AI development are "not grounded in science." He argued no new AI rules are needed.
MediaTek will adopt Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform so hyperscalers and frontier model developers can build custom XPUs that plug into Nvidia rack-scale AI factories. The two will also co-develop RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chips and automotive platforms.
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