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A new proposal would pay rural Americans thousands of dollars in "data center dividends," sharing AI data center tax revenue directly with households.

Nvidia's Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to--and help it promote--a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets. Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, which makes online developer tools and maintains a massive library of open-source data sets, for nearly $13 billion. While the deal had been rumored for weeks, the companies made it official Thursday morning. The deal signals Nvidia's seriousness about being steeped in the software side of generative AI development as well as in infrastructure. Nvidia already offers customers a suite of free, customizable open-weights AI models, known as Nemotron.

While companies promise they can help users monitor gut health, experts suggest that smart toilets provide little in the way of benefits to the average person. It was only a matter of time before wellness trackers --already out there trying to optimize our heart rate, sleep, stress, steps, blood sugar, and menstruation--came for perhaps the most private biosignal of all: our poop. The global gut health market is expected to reach nearly $106 billion by 2029, and a handful of companies are betting they can use stool data to provide in-depth health insights, nudge people to change their diets or lifestyles, and advise them to see a doctor if their bathroom habits seem amiss. But gastroenterologists are skeptical that products that rely on AI to analyze images of what's going on in your toilet bowl are worth the price just yet, and data-privacy advocates warn that people can get locked into long-term subscriptions just to access their own health data. Among the companies touting smart toilets are Kohler Health--an offshoot of the eponymous plumbing giant that sells its device for $449 plus $130 for an annual family membership--and Throne, a startup that raised $10 million in July.

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I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Google's AI-first Googlebook laptop is almost here - can it avoid the Copilot+ PC problem? It won't be another high-end Chromebook like the Pixel, and Google has to hope it'll succeed where Copilot+ PCs have fallen short. The Googlebook is more about AI than Android compatibility. The new operating system will merge Android and ChromeOS. Chromebooks will continue to be sold and supported.

German drone maker Helsing has enlisted Japanese e-commerce and finance firm Rakuten to help finalize a deal to sell its unmanned systems to Japan's army, a spokesperson for Rakuten said on Monday. Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force is currently testing Helsing's HX-2 strike drone, as Tokyo looks to modernize its military and counter an increasingly assertive China. The field tests will run until the end of September, the spokesperson said. Helsing struck an "initial agreement" for the Japanese government to use its systems earlier this year, a spokesperson for the Munich-based company said, adding that the move was made possible by an unnamed "local brokerage partner." Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cursor, the startup that became famous for its AI coding tool, is now officially owned by SpaceX. The companies announced the acquisition in June, but the process apparently started in April, when they teamed up for Cursor's model training efforts. In its announcement, Cursor said that it will now have access to "the largest fleet of GPUs in the world," which will give it the computing capacity to build and train better models that it can offer its customers at a lower cost. SpaceX, which merged with Elon Musk's AI company xAI earlier this year, paid 60 billion for the purchase. In July, xAI officially became SpaceXAI.

Taiwan's tech titan Foxconn has reported a forecast-busting second-quarter net profit, as exploding demand for artificial intelligence servers needed in data centres powers the company's growth. The world's largest contract electronics maker said on Wednesday that net income rose 35 percent to $59.97 billion New Taiwan dollars ($1.86bn) in the April-June period. "AI infrastructure is driving growth," Foxconn said in its earnings announcement. In an earnings release, Foxconn, Nvidia's biggest server maker and Apple's top iPhone assembler, stuck to its previous forecast of "strong" growth for revenue this year. Governments and tech giants are pouring huge sums into building data centres that can train and run AI tools such as chatbots, image generators and agents that can execute tasks.