• September 29, 2026
AMD Buys Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 Billion: The “Godmother of AI” Becomes Chief Scientist as the Chip War Turns to Talent

AMD has agreed to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in an $8.2 billion all-stock deal, with the “Godmother of AI” joining as EVP and Chief Scientist. The bet on spatial intelligence moves the AI race from models to silicon, giving Lisa Su’s AMD a new angle of attack against Nvidia’s compute dominance.

  • September 4, 2026
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion: The AI Giant’s Biggest Bet on Open Source

Nvidia has officially agreed to buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, its second-largest deal ever. Jensen Huang promises the platform with 3 million models and 18 million developers will remain open. Two years after rejecting Nvidia’s investment, Hugging Face sells — the neutral era of open-source AI is over.