WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weather information users see in search, Google Maps, and Gemini.
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to scale the open-source model repository’s platform and infrastructure. The transaction targets platform growth and infrastructure investment, aiming to expand AI access for enterprise developers, software engineers, and research institutions globally. Built over the past decade by Clem Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf, and their […] The post NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B appeared first on AI News.
OneRail has launched an AI-powered delivery platform that uses Nvidia technology to help retailers, wholesalers, and distributors decide how individual orders should be delivered. Called OmniSTAR, the system evaluates options including owned fleets, couriers, parcel carriers, and other delivery modes, then selects the lowest-cost option that meets the required service level, according to OneRail. The […] The post OneRail uses Nvidia AI for real-time last-mile delivery optimisation appeared
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
On September 2, 2026, Anthropic released and open-sourced the Claude Commerce Agents blueprint, providing full reference implementations for shopping and merchant agents with built-in guardrails and human approval. After ten leading companies, including Shopify, Priceline, Visa, and Mastercard, integrated it, average basket size grew 35% and checkout completion rose 60%.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot Digital harms have become the defining fear of American parents. In response, they’re increasingly turning to content-monitoring apps that scan their children’s texts, photos, emails,…
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
At IFA 2026, Nvidia and its partners showed off the first RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs, designed to run AI models right on your computer.
If you’ve had to fill up your vehicle’s gas tank or buy a plane ticket lately, you’ve probably felt the effects of rising fossil-fuel prices. But farmers buying fertilizer for their crops are especially aware of just how far the ripple effects of the conflict in Iran have spread. Fertilizer prices have been on a…
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains…
WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.
On September 2, 2026, OpenAI announced that its new model Astra had officially triggered the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold in internal evaluations—the first model to receive this designation since the Preparedness Framework was established in 2023. Astra scored a perfect 100% on ExploitBench and autonomously discovered two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities.
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
A federal court in California vacated the Pentagon’s “national security supply chain risk” designation against Anthropic, finding violations of the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and the Administrative Procedure Act. The ruling limits the government’s ability to use procurement powers to pressure AI suppliers over protected speech or contract positions.
