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Nvidia nears $14 billion deal to buy Hugging Face

Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI model platform, in a deal that could total roughly $14 billion, Bloomberg reported on September 2. An agreement valued at $12.9 billion could come as soon as this…

SpaceXAI launches Grok Bot, an AI agent for business tasks

SpaceXAI on Tuesday released Grok Bot, a new AI agent tool that the company describes as "AI teammates you can give real work to," marking its latest effort to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI in the rapidly evolving AI agent…

Microsoft launches AI security agents in public preview

Microsoft on Sunday launched the public preview of Project Perception, an autonomous security framework that deploys specialized AI agents to investigate threats, assess risk, and take corrective action within Microsoft Defender. The system, first announced on July 27 by Microsoft…

Bending Spoons to acquire Airtable for $1.285B in first post-IPO deal

Bending Spoons announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Airtable, the collaborative workflow platform, in an all-cash transaction valuing the company at an enterprise value of $1.285 billion. Combined with Airtable's net cash balance, the deal implies an…

Alibaba and DeepSeek shake up AI race with new models at a fraction of Western costs

DeepSeek's V4-Flash model costs an average of just 3 cents per benchmark test, compared with $3.15 for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, making it the world's cheapest well-known AI model to run, according to research firm Artificial Analysis. The finding underscores…

Russia opens antitrust case against Apple over app rules

Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service has launched a formal antitrust case against Apple after the U.S. technology company failed to fully comply with requirements to pre-install domestic software on iPhones and iPads sold in the country, according to Reuters and Russia's…

SAP shares surge after cloud backlog beats expectations

SAP shares surged more than 6% on Friday after the German software giant's second-quarter cloud contract backlog topped analyst expectations, offering relief to investors who had watched the stock lose a third of its value in 2026.

Apple releases iOS 27 public beta with overhauled Siri AI

Apple is releasing the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and watchOS 27 on Monday, opening the pre-release software to anyone willing to test it ahead of a September launch. The release, confirmed by…

GPT-5.6 becomes preferred AI model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

OpenAI announced on Thursday that its GPT-5.6 family of models is now the preferred model powering Microsoft 365 Copilot, available across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams Chat. The rollout coincides with GPT-5.6's broader public release after a two-week period of…

Bending Spoons surges in Nasdaq debut, topping $25B valuation

Italian technology company Bending Spoons closed its first day of trading on the Nasdaq nearly 40% above its IPO price on Wednesday, capping one of the year's most notable public offerings. Shares opened at $31 and ended the session at…

Bain uses AI to clone software of takeover targets

Bain & Company has been using generative AI to rapidly build working replicas of software products belonging to potential acquisition targets, fundamentally altering how private equity investors assess whether a deal is worth pursuing.

Apple unveils Spatial Reframing AI photo tool at WWDC 2026

Apple unveiled Spatial Reframing on Monday at WWDC 2026, a new AI-powered photo editing tool that lets users change the perspective of an image after it has been taken — as if the camera had been repositioned before the shot…