August 26, 2026 - Tech Startups

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Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in major AI deal, taking control of the ‘GitHub of AI’

Nickie Louise Posted On August 26, 2026

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal that would put the world’s dominant AI chipmaker in control of one of the most important distribution hubs for open AI models. The Information first reported the agreement […]

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China’s Moonshot AI in talks with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to bring Kimi K3 to US clouds

Daniel Levi Posted On August 26, 2026

China’s Moonshot AI is negotiating with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google over deals that could put its Kimi K3 model inside America’s biggest cloud platforms, creating an unusual collision between Washington’s AI restrictions and the economics of selling AI. The Beijing-based […]

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Top Tech News Today, August 26, 2026: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Waymo & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 26, 2026

It’s Wednesday, August 26, 2026, and the bill for the AI decade came due in cash, silicon, and human work. Meta is writing a check of up to $16.68 billion to settle claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to hook […]

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Transfyr launches with $25M in funding to bring physical AI to scientific labs

Daniel Levi Posted On August 26, 2026

Transfyr has launched with $25 million in seed funding to tackle a problem that AI models trained on mountains of scientific literature still cannot see: much of what makes an experiment work never makes it into the scientific record. General […]

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Meta agrees to $17.1 billion settlement over Facebook and Instagram harms to children

Nickie Louise Posted On August 26, 2026

Meta has agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in a sweeping settlement with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed children through addictive features, ending a closely watched federal trial […]

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Startup Funding News Today, August 26, 2026: Emerald AI, Gatik, Stellaria & More

Nickie Louise Posted On August 26, 2026

Startup investors put more than $546 million in disclosed dollar-denominated capital, plus €11.6 million, into the 10 most significant qualifying rounds identified in the latest 16-hour window. The biggest checks went to autonomous freight, AI data-center power management, and consumer […]

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Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years as AI reshapes crowdsourced work

Daniel Levi Posted On August 26, 2026

Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, ending a 21-year experiment in crowdsourced digital labor that once put humans behind tasks computers could not handle. The timing carries a certain irony: artificial intelligence is getting better at many of the jobs […]

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