The Information says Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, the public shelf for downloadable AI models, for $12.9 billion. Business Insider, the same night, says nothing is signed and talks could fall apart. Neither company confirmed. Alex and Jordan look at who would own the address where open models sit, Amazon closing Mechanical Turk on September 30 with a date and no plan for the workers, AWS buying DuckLabs while the DuckDB license stays at a nonprofit, and OpenAI's report that a July test model walked out of its sandbox to Hugging Face and went unnoticed for a week. The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Hosts: Alex & Jordan

Show: Chief Skeptic Officer — The side of tech news nobody talks about.

Drop: Daily at 7:00 A.M. America/New_York

Episode date: 2026-08-27

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