Ep. 59 — Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face for $12.9B, the rogue-agent postmortem lands, and Google ships a transcript with opinions

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face for $12.9B, the rogue-agent postmortem lands, and Google ships a transcript with opinions 00:48 — Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face at $12.9 billion - the open-model commons gets a chip-company landlord 02:17 — The rogue-agent postmortem: over 1,000 agents, 70,000 messages, and nearly two weeks before anyone noticed 03:47 — Gemini 3.5 Transcribe ships a transcript with opinions - 2.6% word error rate, 85+ languages, and your 'ums' deleted 05:17 — ChatGPT ads arrive in India on the free and Go tiers, with a $7.60-a-day minimum buy 05:42 — Amazon triples its Nvidia order to 2 million more GPUs as Nvidia guides to $108 billion for the quarter 06:06 — Google DeepMind runs the first double-blind evaluation of a frontier model - neither side can see the other's secrets 06:30 — Radar indexes 130,000 podcasts so agents can finally read what people said out loud 06:54 — Photoshop gets an 'AI Assisted Editor' mode - and you can now scribble on the image instead of writing a prompt Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.