EpisodeTuesday, September 1, 2026 · 23 min
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Nvidia Circles Hugging Face for $12.9B as AI's Chokepoints Multiply
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Nvidia Circles Hugging Face for $12.9B as AI's Chokepoints Multiply
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Nvidia is reportedly circling Hugging Face for $12.9 billion while turning its NVLink interconnect into an industry-wide toll booth, and Batfish just gave AI network agents their first real safety check. We also cover Anthropic's sandbox-escape postmortem and a thirty-year-old math problem finally solved.
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HOST A
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Tuesday, September first. Remember last Friday when we spent half the show on OpenAI's agents breaking into Hugging Face's own systems?
HOST B
I remember. Vividly.
HOST A
Nvidia is reportedly trying to buy the place now.
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