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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 institute lists Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Google's James Manyika as directors, with Legg as managing editor. Its first four essays cover AGI economic disruption, preserving readable model reasoning, human flourishing, and frontier-model evaluation.
OpenAI disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that spiked to 16,000 extraction attempts from over 4,000 users on July 24-25, 2026, with related prompt-pattern activity across 15,000+ users. OpenAI says operators manipulated model interactions rather than breaking encryption, and banned the accounts.
Two new GPT-Image-2.5 models: Sunburst for sharper details and precise edits, Flare for high-quality generation over 50% faster. Both support transparent backgrounds; rolling out to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users.
Atria Dawn Preview is a foundation agentic language model built on GLM-5.2's 744B parameter backbone by Shanghai AI Laboratory, a lab of 96 people including 65 students. It verifies its own work against external evidence — tests, metrics, file states, rendered outputs — before treating a task as complete.
ChatGPT Voice can now use plugins including email, calendar, and Slack, and be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna. It is available in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile for creating docs, decks, sites, and spreadsheets.
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