DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, September 4, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, September 4, 2026 OpenAI begins rolling out Astra, its new flagship GPT 6 model, to select customers and says the AGI era has begun, built on a training run of more than 100,000 GPUs at its Texas Stargate site. Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion while pledging the platform stays open to rival chips. Anthropic nears a $15 billion revolving credit facility ahead of its public filing. Thinking Machines Lab is in talks to raise $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation. Abu Dhabi's Institute of Foundation Models releases K2 Horizon, six fully open models from 0.9 billion to 375 billion parameters, with weights, code and training data. Google brings conversational voice to Gmail, Docs and Keep. DeepSeek plans a cluster of at least 160,000 Huawei accelerators in Inner Mongolia. Crusoe signs a five year cloud contract with Jane Street worth roughly $13 billion. Palantir and PwC expand their alliance around an AI native deals platform. Ciena posts record quarterly revenue of $1.67 billion, up 37 percent on AI driven optical demand. The Allen Institute, University of Washington and Fred Hutch launch a $94.6 million AI BioDesign accelerator. And Challenger reports August job cuts fell to their lowest August level since 2022, with AI no longer the top stated reason. DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning. #AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #Nvidia #DXToday