Today's Signal: NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B, Sonar ships AI security agent, Chinese models overtake U.S.

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Platform EngineeringToday's Signal: NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B, Sonar ships AI security agent, Chinese models overtake U.S.

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