Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal to buy AI platform Hugging Face Image caption, Nvidia would gain one of the world's largest AI developer communities through the deal. Nvidia has agreed to buy artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $12.9bn (£9.5bn), one of the AI chipmaker's biggest acquisitions as it expands into software. Hugging Face, founded in 2016, has become a popular online platform where developers and researchers can find, share and test AI models and tools. It recently made headlines after rogue AI agents that escaped a testing environment appeared on its platform, raising questions about AI safety and oversight. The deal would bring one of the world's largest AI developer communities into Nvidia and give it control of a leading open-source platform - an alternative to systems offered by OpenAI and Anthropic.

One of the latest tools NVIDIA has announced at IFA 2026 is called Personal AI Router or PAIR, a free and open-source tool that can distribute AI workloads across local PCs. "More than half of US households have two or more PCs," NVIDIA writes in its announcement, and apparently, they mostly sit idle throughout the day. While AI agents already break complex tasks into smaller jobs that can be done at the same time, they could be competing for the same GPU anyway. In other words, more complex tasks would still take some time to finish. PAIR prevents performance slowdowns by finding PCs on a local network and then routing task requests to the system, which is currently running idle and has the capacity to accomplish them more quickly.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Nvidia and its partners are ready to roll out new RTX Spark-powered devices in October, shoving the GPU goliath into the CPU spotlight with a beastly first processor that's augmented by powerful integrated graphics. It's all to chase the allure of local AI. And to set the stage, at IFA Berlin 2026, Nvidia is introducing new software designed to turn your RTX-powered gaming household into a miniature AI factory of its own. Dubbed Nvidia PAIR (short for "Personal AI Router"), the free application takes all the GPUs in your local network and dynamically shoots AI agents and subagents to the best available resources during inference tasks.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm laptops launch in October with bold 100 FPS gaming claims, but that number relies heavily on DLSS frame generation. Windows laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon Arm chips hit the market in 2024--their reception has been tepid, to say the least. Initially, incredible battery life was offset by poor gaming performance, and both Intel and AMD have caught up on efficiency since then. Now, in 2026, during the worst time in decades to buy a new laptop, Nvidia wants to power your next one with Arm.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Lenovo and its IdeaPad Vibe laptops walk a fine line between consumer-focused colorways and an optional Qira AI tool. Lenovo's IdeaPad Vibe is here to answer the question: What am I going to buy as a cheap, productive PC this holiday? If you can spare $699.99, Lenovo has the answer: Either 14-inch or 15-inch Vibe laptops, with attractive colorways, available initially with either first-gen Snapdragon X processors or the new AMD Ryzen AI 400 series processors.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Lenovo argues that it's more ergonomic and less top-heavy than its previous vertical rollable laptop. At CES 2026, we saw a Lenovo gaming laptop that slowly unrolled into a widescreen laptop. At IFA, we're seeing a second: a ThinkBook prototype that Lenovo is calling "Project Swan." Let's face it: Lenovo seems to have this rollable laptop concept sewn up.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. At IFA 2026, Lenovo debuted a fanless 14-inch laptop concept built on Frore's AirJet tech, finally validating cooling technology first reported in 2022. In 2022, I broke the story on Frore Systems and its AirJet Mini and AirJet Pro, two solid-state cooling solutions that could replace traditional fans in laptops. Since then, readers have been grumbling: "Where are they? Is the AirJet just vaporware?"

I went hands-on with Lenovo's latest rollable laptop - is it finally practical? Unveiled at IFA, the 17-inch rollable horizontal display hits a middle ground that is more usable than its predecessors. Kyle Kucharski is a Brooklyn-based writer and Senior Editor at ZDNET. Unveiled at IFA, the device has a horizontal display. This niche device is more practical than its rivals.

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