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SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech industry. In this end-of-summer episode, Gregor and Sean turn to a busy season of mergers and acquisitions, including NVIDIA‘s reported $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, Dynatrace‘s near-billion-dollar deal for AI observability platform Arize, and Temporal‘s rumored raise at a $12 billion valuation. They also cover a run of large funding rounds, from AI security startup HiddenLayer to AI personal assistant Instinct and restaurant software platfo...
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Hello and welcome to SED News. This is the monthly format of Software Engineering Daily where myself, Gregor, and we also have Sean Faulkner. Hey Gregor. Hey Gregor.
Yeah, we have the two of us taking you through a spin of the main tech headlines. We then dive into a deeper topic in the middle. And then we finish up with Hacker News highlights, where we pick some of our favorites from the last couple of weeks as well. But yeah, both Sean and I have been super busy. So that's why this release is going out,
I think about a week later than it should. So apologies to anyone that was hoping to see one last week. But yeah, so yeah, Sean, you're at what have you been up to? Other than the usual road warrior travel schedule, school started again for my kids. So my kids are back in that routine. So we're kind of back in the thick of it. And I'm a little bit
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