Hugging Face is in acquisition talks at a $13 billion valuation, with banks evaluating bids for the AI infrastructure giant, though questions remain about whether CEO Clem Delangue is truly open to selling given his commitment to long-term community responsibility.
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, founder of Google's TPU program and former Nvidia chip leader, to build a custom in-house AI silicon operation designed specifically for Claude's workloads, while maintaining existing hardware partnerships with Nvidia, Google, and Amazon.
Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a powerful AI video model generating 30-second clips from documents and web pages, as the tech giant raises a record $10B in shares to fuel AI expansion, reporting a 45% cloud revenue surge despite a 75% drop in quarterly net profit.
OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 prices by over 20% across multiple model tiers, dropping its top model to $4 per million input tokens to undercut Anthropic and DeepSeek as enterprises pull back on frontier AI spending.
Hugging Face is exploring a sale at a staggering $13 billion valuation — nearly triple its 2023 worth — as the AI developer platform, home to over 3 million public models, works with a bank to gauge buyer interest amid surging demand for AI middleware acquisitions.
Anthropic hires Amir Salek, the pioneer behind Google's custom TPU chip program, to spearhead its own semiconductor development, signaling a major push toward building in-house AI hardware infrastructure for its Claude platform.
OpenAI launches an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on Mac, letting users find, summarize, and send texts via AI — but Apple's upcoming iOS 27 threatens to overshadow it with a supercharged Siri capable of doing the same across all Apple devices.
Anthropic is gearing up for a potential mega-IPO that could rival SpaceX's record-setting offering, with CFO Krishna Rao leading investor briefings ahead of a planned public filing as early as August 2026, reflecting surging demand for AI investments.
Stripe reports explosive 41% revenue growth and acquires OpenRouter for $8B while pursuing a massive $53B PayPal deal, all as the payments giant keeps its IPO on indefinite hold and boldly declares January 1st the dawn of 'the singularity.'
Replit launches 'Free Mode' for Core and Pro subscribers, powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna following an 80% price cut, letting users chat and run tasks without burning through their token budgets.