Hugging Face is reportedly fielding acquisition offers valuing it around $13 billion. The founders' sense of obligation to the open-source community is the main thing said to be standing in the way of a deal.
Ben Thompson argues that in agentic cybersecurity the incentives favor offense over defense, and that the same asymmetry is what will hold incumbents back and give startups room to run.
Simon Willison pulls the numbers out of an FT report: Anthropic's annualized revenue reached roughly $65 billion in July, up from $47 billion in May, with the company expecting a profitable Q3 — even as the story frames its top model as losing ground to cheaper competitors.
China postponed the Chang'e 7 lunar mission to 2027, saying the flight 'does not meet the conditions for launch.' The delay pushes back a mission meant to scout the lunar south pole for the crewed program.