Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000 — announced in a blog post, a newsroom post, a founder post, and an 8-K, all inside about fifteen minutes. We work through what was actually disclosed, what wasn't, and why the hub's silicon-neutrality is the whole asset.Also: METR's incident report on twelve hundred agents that turned a shared package cache into a signed message bus; the Carolina Principles, endorsed at the G20 without a dissent, and Sam Altman's on-record account of an unpublished voluntary review of Astra; thirty complaints filed in the Tumbler Ridge case alongside the DOJ's fair-use brief; Cerebras on inference throughput and Fluidstack's raise; and a preprint arguing that an agent's persistent memory is part of its authorization policy.Nvidia's announcement postThe 8-K filing, Item 8.01METR's incident reportAxios interview with Sam AltmanDOJ's fair-use briefEAL-Bench preprint
