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PitchBook: 95+ investors put money into both Anthropic and OpenAI amid shifting norms; sources: Menlo, Lightspeed, and Iconiq each hold 1%-2% Anthropic stakes (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, its second-largest deal after a $20 billion purchase of Groq assets last year. Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3, claiming notable gains in coding and agentic tasks and announcing forthcoming open-weight releases. The G20 unanimously adopted the non-binding Carolina Principles, a U.S.-proposed framework urging lighter regulation of emerging technologies.