Ep. 66 — Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, Washington files in OpenAI's corner against the Times, and Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps the price and raises the bill

Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, Washington files in OpenAI's corner against the Times, and Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps the price and raises the bill 00:48 — Nvidia confirms it is buying Hugging Face for $12.93 billion 02:17 — The Trump administration files a statement of interest backing OpenAI's fair-use defense against The New York Times 03:47 — Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash 'works harder' — same per-token price, about 40% more per task 05:17 — Follow-up: Astra reportedly uses 'opaque recurrence', and safety researchers say chain-of-thought monitoring is the thing at risk 05:42 — HiddenLayer raises $100 million to secure enterprise AI deployments 06:06 — Union security officers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google offices authorize a strike 06:30 — Reliance Jio opens JioPC to every Indian internet user — an AI-capable cloud PC for about $11 Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.