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Nvidia targets Hugging Face & Cloudflare shrinks massive DNS caches - Hacker News (Aug 28, 2026)

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 28, 20264 min
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Let's start with AI industry news. In a new development in the story we've been following, NVIDIA is reportedly in recent talks to acquire Hugging Face in a deal that could value the company at more than $13 billion.

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Nothing is final, and the talks could still fall apart, but even the possibility is significant. Hugging Face sits at the center of the open source AI world, so if NVIDIA were to take control,

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it would raise obvious questions about how neutral that platform could remain. For NVIDIA, it would also be another way to extend influence beyond chips and deeper into the tools and communities that developers rely on every day. Staying with AI, one of the more interesting arguments circulating today

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