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  • Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion

    Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.

  • The Download: rethinking child safety and fossil-fueled farming

    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,…

  • Agriculture relies on fossil fuels. It’s costing us.

    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…

  • Scaling agentic AI pilots across the enterprise

    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…

  • Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants

    Congress pauses the OMB's attempt to rewrite how research is funded.

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