Who's Vetting Your AI Agent's Add-Ons?
As AI agents install skills and plugins on their own, a startup called AIR wants to police that new software supply chain before attackers do.
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Nvidia's $3.5B Bet on Custom Chips
Nvidia is putting $3.5B into MediaTek so even the chips built to replace Nvidia's GPUs still run on Nvidia's plumbing.
Nvidia's $13 Billion Bet on Hugging Face
Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face, the go-to home for open AI models, in a move that's more about influence than profit.
DuckDB's Makers Are Joining AWS
DuckLabs, the small Amsterdam team behind the popular DuckDB database, is joining Amazon and promising the code stays open source.
Apple Bets on Local AI With New Macs
Apple's refreshed Mac mini and Mac Studio are pitched at developers who want to run AI models at home instead of renting cloud tokens.
Hugging Face Approached for $13B Sale
The open-source hub where AI developers swap models has reportedly been approached to sell for $13 billion or more.
TrueForge Wants to Unshackle Your AI Agents
A new open-source agent harness lets you swap AI models freely and claims up to 75% lower costs, if you run more of the stack yourself.
Physical AI Attracts $47 Billion in 2026
Venture money is flooding into robots, drones and self-driving cars, and the first half of 2026 outpaced the previous three years combined.
When Coding AI Also Learns to Hack
Zhipu's new GLM-5.3 got good at finding security holes faster than its makers expected, and it's about to go open-weight.
Nvidia Steps Into Model Routing
Model routing sends each prompt to the cheapest capable model, and Nvidia just launched its own version to trim AI bills.