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Nvidia agreed to pay US$12.9 billion for the open-model hub used by 18 million developers, says its chips will not be required to use it, and expects the deal to close in the first half of 2027.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday. Its president called it a generational leap that might be AGI, and safety researchers say its reasoning method is playing with fire.

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok failed within the same hour on Thursday US time. OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI confirmed faults on their status pages, Downdetector passed 35,000 reports, and no company has named a cause.

Australia's privacy framework is due for a meaningful overhaul. The Albanese Government released an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 on 31 August, targeting risks that have outpaced the existing Privacy Act 1988, specifically artificial intelligence and

Google has stopped sending travellers to booking sites and started completing the transaction itself. Flight price tracking in AI Mode is now live in more than 180 countries and territories, Australia included, with EEA markets excluded.

Ads are live inside ChatGPT. OpenAI switched them on for Free and Go tier users in India on 27 August 2026, opening with fifty brands through agency partners WPP and Omnicom. If your brand missed that first cohort, a self-serve ad manager opens next month and the floor is roughly $7.60 a day.

The deal is unconfirmed. A person with knowledge of the matter told The Information on 26 August 2026 that Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. As of 28 August 2026, neither Nvidia nor Hugging Face had issued a press release or filed an SEC report confirming the acquisition.

Nvidia posted a $96.2 billion quarter, up 106 per cent year on year and about $4 billion ahead of consensus, and its guidance on hyperscaler spending came in hotter still.