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This Week in AI: NVIDIA Buys HuggingFace, OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor, and the Benchmark Problem Gets Loud

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This week in AI was one of the more consequential in recent memory. A landmark acquisition, a very public model access war, a major open-weight release, a $1.1B infrastructure fund, and a growing consensus that benchmarks are lying to us — all in the same seven days. Let's get into it. NVIDIA Acqui…

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    This Week in AI: NVIDIA Buys HuggingFace, OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor, and the Benchmark Problem Gets Loud

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