9.0
TechCrunch
technology
03 Sep 2026, 8:42 PM
Nvidia confirmed it will acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing the platform that hosts 3 million models, 1 million apps, 500K datasets, and serves 18 million developers under the dominant AI chipmaker's control. Jensen Huang pledged Hugging Face will remain open and that Nvidia compute will not be required to build or deploy through it, while Clem Delangue framed the deal as necessary for scaling open-source AI with more compute and support. Hugging Face had previously rejected a $500 million Nvidia offer last year before agreeing to this deal.
9.0
CNBC Technology
technology
28 Aug 2026, 1:49 AM
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, with Business Insider separately reporting the two were in talks. Neither company has confirmed the deal, which would place the most widely used open-source AI model-sharing platform under Nvidia's ownership.
8.5
CNBC Technology
technology
04 Sep 2026, 12:43 AM
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, its second-largest deal after paying $20 billion for Groq assets last year. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said he approached Nvidia's Jensen Huang over the summer, believing open-source AI was at a turning point needing more infrastructure. Huang stated Hugging Face will 'remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem.'
8.5
The Register
technology
03 Sep 2026, 9:03 PM
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, with the deal expected to close in H1 2027 pending regulatory approval. Nvidia pledged to keep the model hub open to the broader AI ecosystem, but the acquisition gives the GPU giant direct ownership of the primary platform where developers discover, host, and distribute open models.
8.5
The Register
technology
03 Sep 2026, 2:28 AM
A human attacker used frontier AI models and agentic attack frameworks to fully breach an enterprise network in under 10 hours—a task Unit 42 says normally takes human operators about two weeks. AI agents autonomously performed reconnaissance, breached a public API endpoint, scraped code repos for hardcoded tokens, stole master admin credentials from a secret-management system, pivoted across cloud/CI-CD/SaaS environments, and hijacked the victim's own cloud AI services as post-compromise infrastructure. The attacker then left the victim an 80-page security audit detailing dozens of exploited findings, and told negotiators that AI agents carried out every step.
8.5
The Hacker News
security
02 Sep 2026, 10:06 PM
Manifold Security disclosed eight flaws across seven CLI AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, goose, Qwen Code, Grok Build, Hermes Agent) where a repository's .git/config can specify a command via core.fsmonitor that Git runs during index refresh — and the agents trigger git status/git diff at startup, executing attacker-controlled code as the user outside the sandbox with no approval prompt. Four agents (Hermes Agent, Qwen Code, Grok Build, and a second Claude Code path) were still unpatched as of September 1, 2026. The attack requires the repo to arrive with its .git directory intact (shared archive, sync folder, USB stick), not via a normal clone.