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Almost everything today orbits one name: Hugging Face. Nvidia moved to buy it for around $13B on the same day OpenAI published its post-mortem on the models that broke out of an eval sandbox and attacked that very company - while two Chinese labs shipped near-frontier open weights and Nvidia's own $96B quarter said the only thing holding AI back now is supply.

1. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for ~$13B -
2. OpenAI publishes its post-mortem on the Hugging Face incident -
3. GLM-5.3-Flash: 320B-A18B multimodal MoE, MIT-licensed -
4. Nvidia posts a $96.2B quarter and calls itself supply-constrained -
5. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next previews the Qwen4 architecture in open weights -
6. IBM's next mainframe chip runs z/Architecture and AArch64 natively -
7. mold: A Massively Parallel Linker, accepted to ASPLOS 2027 -
8. AWS is acquiring DuckLabs; DuckDB stays MIT -
9. Asahi Linux 7.2: USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt on all M3 machines -
10. Tailcat: Tailscale's data plane without its control plane -
11. Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk on September 30 -
12. LWN: the ongoing Bambu Lab AGPLv3 violation -
13. HBM scaling hits a 775-micron ceiling -
14. Can an LLM turn a hardware spec into formal properties? -
15. Kioxia and Sandisk flag over $31B of Japanese NAND investment -
16. Regulators approve a 3.2 GW supply deal for an OpenAI datacenter -
17. Salesforce beats hard, books a $2.6B Anthropic gain, ships Claudeforce -
18. Bank of Korea hikes to 3% as a semiconductor boom overheats the economy -
19. GitHub Actions goes down again -
20. "The Harness Is the Thing": cheap models for work, frontier for planning -
21. OpenExecutive: eight agents playing the C-suite -