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3 septembre 2026 —
NVIDIA agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
Today's North America AI brief is led by NVIDIA's agreement to buy Hugging Face, a deal that would join the dominant AI-compute supplier with the largest open-model platform. Google also pushed agentic reasoning and cyber defense forward, while policy and capital moved around emerging technology, autonomous transport and AI security.
NVIDIA agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion
NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing the widely used repository for open models, datasets and AI applications under the world's leading AI-chip supplier.
NVIDIA says Hugging Face will remain an open platform, keep its brand and not require developers to use NVIDIA compute. The platform serves more than 18 million users and hosts over 3 million models.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cyber-defense variant
Google introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding, agentic work and multi-step reasoning at an introductory price of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.
It also launched Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a security-focused variant available to trusted defenders through the Fairwind Program.
G20 innovation ministers endorse a lighter-touch technology framework
G20 innovation ministers reached consensus on the Carolina Principles for Emerging Technologies after a two-day meeting in North Carolina.
The non-binding statement spans pro-innovation regulation, workforce development, AI-related intellectual property, technical standards and supply-chain investment.
PlusAI plans a public listing through an $800 million SPAC deal
Autonomous-trucking developer PlusAI agreed to combine with Texas Ventures Acquisition III in a transaction valuing the company at about $800 million before new money.
The SEC filing says the deal could provide up to roughly $300 million as PlusAI targets a 2027 commercial launch of factory-built autonomous trucks.
Wonderful reaches a $5 billion valuation with a $550 million round
Wonderful closed a Series C led by Insight Partners to expand its model-agnostic enterprise AI operating system and forward-deployed engineering teams across more than 35 markets.
Alexa for Shopping can verify whether a message came from Amazon
Amazon added a U.S. verification tool that lets customers ask Alexa for Shopping whether an email, text, call or other message claiming to be from Amazon is genuine.
New U.S. tariffs of up to 100% take effect on imported drones
U.S. tariffs on selected imported drones and components took effect on September 3, with duties reaching 100% for several covered categories and 25% for some smaller systems.