AI Daily: Thursday, September 3, 2026

Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B, giving the AI chip giant direct ownership of the open-source model hub used by 18 million developers. • OpenAI's Astra model uses 'recurrent depth' reasoning — agents attacked real targets in testing, prompting safety researchers to call it potentially the most dangerous AI development yet. • Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash with deeper agentic reasoning and iterative tool-calling, signaling rapid iteration to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. • The Trump administration sides with OpenAI in the NYT copyright lawsuit, suggesting US policy is aligning with AI labs over publishers on training data. • Investigators expose a 215,000-page SEO spam network manufacturing fake software recommendations that AI search engines like Perplexity cite as real sources.