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NVIDIA announced a definitive agreement to acquire Hugging Face for exactly $12,930,300,000. A separate report placed the expected closing in the first half of 2027; the supplied sources did not disclose regulatory approvals or other closing conditions.
Crusoe, described in the supplied report as a cloud-computing provider and data-center developer, raised more than $3 billion at a valuation of approximately $30 billion. The report attributed the information to people familiar with the matter rather than to a company announcement or securities filing.
Anthropic was reported to be close to expanding its revolving credit facility to $15 billion. The arrangement had not yet been reported as finalized, and the facility size would exceed the company’s earlier target of approximately $10 billion.
Thinking Machines Lab was reported to be discussing a financing of approximately $1 billion at a valuation of around $40 billion. The source characterized the transaction as talks, not a completed or contractually committed financing.
Flex agreed to acquire EPC Power in a transaction valued at $4.4 billion. EPC Power was described as a supplier of power-conversion solutions for data centers and electrical grids, placing the acquired business in the power-delivery layer rather than the processor or server layer.
NVIDIA announced that RTX Spark Windows personal computers will become available in October 2026. The systems are compact Windows PCs intended for AI enthusiasts, developers, and creators running workloads locally.
Xiaomi President and partner Lu Weibing said Xiaomi and ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT (长鑫存储), conducted joint LPDDR6 testing and tuning for one year. LPDDR6 is low-power double-data-rate memory intended for power-sensitive devices rather than a GPU or standalone compute accelerator.
The MikroTik CRS804-4DDQ-hRM is a four-port 400-gigabit Ethernet switch. ServeTheHome evaluated it as a desktop-class networking device that had been used for local AI clusters.
Forschungszentrum Jülich and Siegen-based startup eleQtron officially inaugurated JION, a trapped-ion quantum computer developed in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The source identifies JION as a quantum-computing system, distinct from Jülich’s conventional supercomputers.
George Mason University and Oxford-based frontier-computing company TreQ announced a partnership to bring open-architecture quantum infrastructure to Virginia. The first deployment is described as Virginia’s and the National Capital Region’s first open-architecture quantum-computing system.
South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said four U.S. companies committed a combined $2 billion of investment in South Korea. The stated target areas are semiconductor materials and equipment, advanced display materials, manufacturing capacity, and offshore wind.
State Grid reported that the first transmission-rights transaction sending electricity from China Southern Power Grid to State Grid was completed after southern clean electricity was delivered in full to Wuxi, Jiangsu, through the Yunxiao direct-current transmission link at the end of August. The transaction concerns transmission rights across grid operators, not the construction of new generation capacity.
Lead Intelligent Equipment’s wholly owned subsidiary Hydrogen Intelligence (氢导智能) shipped a gigawatt-scale automated assembly line for proton-exchange-membrane, or PEM, electrolyzers. The line was built for a major domestic energy-equipment company whose name was not disclosed.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that weekly average electricity load in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, remained near a record high. ERCOT is the regional transmission organization serving most of Texas.
University of Waterloo researchers redesigned the porous electrode, a key component of a redox flow battery, using structures inspired by nature. The new electrode is intended to let electrolyte move through the battery more smoothly and efficiently.
Crusoe signed an approximately $13 billion cloud-computing agreement with quantitative-trading firm Jane Street Group, according to people familiar with the nonpublic arrangement. The contract term is five years.
Figure and Nscale announced a compute agreement valued at $3.5 billion, with an intention to expand the relationship beyond $6 billion. The initial deployment is targeted to begin in the second half of 2027 in Barstow, Texas.
CIQ released Fuzzball 4.2, an update to its turnkey sovereign artificial-intelligence and high-performance-computing orchestration platform. The release adds support for AMD graphics processing units, extending hardware coverage beyond the platform’s prior configurations.
ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and SpaceXAI’s Grok experienced service disruptions at approximately the same time on September 3 and subsequently reported recovery through their status pages. Downdetector also reported problems involving Cursor, although the digest item concerns the three major model services.
OpenAI began a staged release of GPT-6 Astra to a limited set of organizations, including organizations participating in its Daybreak Access cybersecurity program. OpenAI described Astra as its new flagship model and added cybersecurity safeguards and tiered access to its release.
OpenAI committed $1 billion to subsidized access to Daybreak, training, technical support, and partnerships. Daybreak was presented as a tool or access program for frontline defenders, with the wider GPT-6 Astra launch identifying participating organizations as part of a cybersecurity initiative.
