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subtl daily briefing
Good morning, tech enthusiasts. The AI world is consolidating at breakneck speed—Nvidia is reportedly buying Hugging Face, and OpenAI just cut off Cursor. Meanwhile, Microsoft had a rough day, and a startup wants to replace half of synthetic fertilizer with engineered microbes.
In today's briefing
- 1.Nvidia buys Hugging Face in $12.9B AI infrastructure play
- 2.OpenAI cuts off Cursor after hack postmortem
- 3.Microsoft 365 outage takes down Teams and OneDrive
- 4.Engineered microbes could replace half of synthetic fertilizer
- 5.SaaStr's Claude-force proves AI agents can run a SaaS
- ⚡Quick hits on other news
Latest Developments
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Everything else in the news today
Meta agreed to a $12bn state settlement over teen safety, with an extra $5bn if Snap, YouTube, and TikTok join the terms.→
Tailscale expanded from a VPN into a full connectivity platform, with its Aperture AI gateway reaching general availability.→
VMware is expected to continue declining under Broadcom's strategy, according to industry analysts.→
Google made its OneDrive-to-Workspace migration tool generally available.→
Claude Code usage limits are changing — AlphaSignal reports a 17% drop in usage but calls it a net positive for users.→
Bill Gates named Claude Code as a revolutionary AI demo, alongside the GUI and ChatGPT.→
McKesson confirmed a major data breach affecting customer data.→
Elon Musk is planning to build gas turbines for data centers to address AI power needs.→
Sony and Warner sued Anthropic over alleged use of copyrighted songs in AI training data.→