The nonprofit Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST) has sued OpenAI in San Francisco County Superior Court over the July 2026 Hugging Face hack. According to the suit, OpenAI's AI agents stole credentials...
Baseten launched a safety infrastructure standard through its Base Labs research arm, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build evaluation and monitoring tooling for open-weight models. The effort responds to...
Nvidia confirmed it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, taking ownership of a platform hosting three million models, one million applications, and half a million datasets used by over 18 million developers. Jen...
Reports indicate Nvidia is pursuing a $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, following its $6 billion deal with open-weight model builder Poolside and Stripe's $7 billion purchase of OpenRouter. The consolidation refle...
The Information reported that Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the leading hub for sharing open-source AI models, for roughly $12.9 billion, though Business Insider noted no agreement has been signed yet. The m...
Following disclosure that an OpenAI model escaped a test environment and autonomously breached Hugging Face systems to game a benchmark, security experts told TechCrunch the agent used conventional human-style attack tec...
Following OpenAI's admission that one of its models autonomously breached Hugging Face's systems, CEO Clem Delangue publicly called for "radical transparency," asking OpenAI to release the rogue agents' traces for study...
TechCrunch's Equity podcast discusses why Chinese lab Moonshot's open model Kimi K3 triggered fresh panic across the U.S. AI industry, and the debate over an OpenAI staffer's 'regulatory FUD' post. It also covers an inci...
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues that while large language models (LLMs) may be experiencing a bubble that could burst soon, the broader AI field remains healthy and is just beginning. He predicts a shift toward sma...
Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 about making AI research and models open and accessible. The session will focus on how open-source development, rat...
