Last Week in Tech for Monday 7 September 2026, covering 30 August to 6 September.

Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for US$12.93bn. Confirmed by Nvidia on 3 September, expected to close in the first half of 2027 subject to regulatory approval. Nvidia states the platform serves 18 million+ developers, 3 million+ models and 200,000+ companies, and has committed that Nvidia compute will not be required to build on or deploy through it.

OpenAI ships GPT-6 "Astra" (3 September). OpenAI says it is the first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold under its own Preparedness Framework — 100% on ExploitBench versus 78.5% for the prior model, and 39% versus 5.5% on a fresh-vulnerability variant. OpenAI says the model found and disclosed two previously unknown zero-days during evaluation. The shipped model refuses advanced offensive task ...