Hugging Face's $13B, Alabama's OpenAI subpoena, Nvidia chip smuggling - August 25, 2026
Hugging Face fields 13 billion dollar acquisition offers while Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over the model that breached it, Taiwan indicts nine over smuggled AI servers, and exploited Zimbra servers keep climbing.
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Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in-talks-to-be-acquired-for-13b/Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/alabama-launches-investigation-into-openais-hack-of-hugging-face/Nvidia, Supermicro employees charged over export of AI servers to China
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/25/nvidia-supermicro-employees-charged-over-export-of-ai-servers-to-chinaSituational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/situational-awareness-star-ai-hedge-fund-that-nearly-imploded-now-being-probed-by-the-sec/Unpatched Zimbra servers are falling to CVE-2026-73570 attacks
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/25/zimbra-cve-2026-73570-compromised/Suspected Iran-linked attack knocked UK power plant offline for days
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/24/uk-power-plant-cyberattack/ShinyHunters taunts ReliaQuest after its own employee falls for social engineering attack
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/25/reliaquest-breach-social-engineering/Oura is reportedly eyeing a September IPO that could value it at more than $16B
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/oura-is-reportedly-eyeing-a-september-ipo-that-could-value-it-at-more-than-16b/Your executable is a SQLite database
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/24/your-executable-is-a-sqlite-database/I spent a day at a robot carnival in Shanghai. Here's what I saw.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/25/1141907/dispatch-shanghai-humanoid-robot-carnival/Segment 12
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