This week: NVIDIA agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hits general availability and immediately runs into capacity limits, and Mistral closes the largest funding round in European tech history.
We break down all three stories in plain terms. First, the deal terms behind NVIDIA's Hugging Face acquisition and what it means for a platform that's supposed to stay neutral across every chipmaker. Second, why OpenAI cut ChatGPT usage limits by up to 4x for heavy users just days after GPT-6 Astra's rollout finished, and what that says about the economics of bigger context windows. Third, how Mistral's 3 billion euro Series D, led by Samsung at a 21 billion euro valuation, fits into the bigger story of sovereign AI and who's funding it.
Full written digest with sources is linked in the show notes on the AI News feed.