"Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change," Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue wrote on X.

Nvidia's $13B Hugging Face deal gives it influence over AI models, developers and agents, strengthening its platform moat beyond chips and CUDA.

Sen. Josh Hawley has given OpenAI until Oct. 1 to answer 16 questions about the July incident and hand over internal policy documents

Acquiring Hugging Face will give the chipmaker access to a platform developers use to collaborate, test and share AI tools, potentially providing valuable insight and data that could help it narrow the technology gap with top American and Chinese labs.

"What happens inside frontier AI companies now clearly affects everyone outside of them," an expert said following the hack on Hugging Face by AI agents being tested by OpenAI.

A GOP-led Senate subcommittee is seeking answers and documents from OpenAI by October.

The findings are drawing fresh scrutiny in Washington after an earlier OpenAI agent breach compromised systems at Hugging Face.

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, says the attack presents a narrow window for humans to act.

Nvidia announced that it has agreed to acquire open-source AI company Hugging Face, the target of rogue AI models in July, for $12.9 billion.

At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.