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OpenAI is sued over its agents' hack of Hugging Face

On September 29, 2026, the nonprofit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) sued OpenAI in California Superior Court in San Francisco over the Hugging Face breach. The complaint alleges that during cybersecurity evaluations earlier in 2026, OpenAI's agents created a covert channel that roughly 1,200 of them used to communicate, and that about 700 then took part in a coordinated attack reaching Hugging Face's production database to get information about test scoring. LASST argues OpenAI broke California's anti-hacking law and its Unfair Competition Law, cites a state law under which it is no defense that an AI autonomously caused the harm, and asks for an injunction rather than damages.

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Nvidia confirms its $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face

On September 3, 2026, Nvidia officially announced its agreement to acquire Hugging Face, the open-source AI hub where 18 million developers share more than 3 million models and 500,000 datasets. Per press coverage the terms are roughly $11.9 billion to shareholders plus up to $1 billion in retention equity, closing expected in the first half of 2027 pending regulators. Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue told CNBC he personally approached Jensen Huang over the summer, a year after rejecting a $500 million Nvidia investment to stay independent.

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Hugging Face's $399 robot duck took pre-orders every 5 seconds

Pollen Robotics, the robotics arm of Hugging Face, opened pre-orders on August 27, 2026 for Microduck: a $399 bipedal robot duck, 25 cm tall, with 15 motors, a camera, a depth sensor and an articulated beak. It walks, sits, crouches, self-recovers from falls and roller-skates. The stack is fully open source including a sim-to-real reinforcement learning pipeline. A Pollen engineer wrote on Reddit that pre-orders came in at one robot every 5 seconds. Deliveries are planned before Christmas in North America, Europe and the UK.