Nvidia Buys Hugging Face, AI Outages, and Data Center Dissent 9/3/26
About this episode
The episode discusses Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face, recent AI outages, and a Kansas union leader's political alignment on data centers.
Nvidia will buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for nearly $13B. BofA’s Vivek Arya says that will extend Nvidia’s sphere of influence well beyond Silicon. Meanwhile, ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all experienced outages in the morning--former Marine Corps. hacker David Kennedy says while that can be attributed to new models causing massive usage spikes, there could also be other, more sinister, factors at play. Plus, a Kansas union leader on why he broke with tradition, aligning with Republicans on data centers in the state.
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