Sources: OpenAI offered to invest ~$100M in Hugging Face before Nvidia's $13B acquisition, but talks fell apart; AMD and Salesforce also held talks (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

OpenAI offered approximately $100 million to Hugging Face before Nvidia’s $13 billion acquisition, but the deal collapsed; AMD and Salesforce also engaged in talks. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier requested an emergency injunction to halt ChatGPT development, citing regulatory concerns. OpenAI canceled the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra, and Nvidia launched the Open Agent Safety Platform to contain AI agents.