AI & Robotics News — Thursday, August 27, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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Nvidia to buy AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion: Report

SourcesCNBC TechnologyBloomberg TechnologyArs TechnicaTechCrunchTom's HardwareFortuneBusiness InsiderThe New StackTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AIThe Decoder

02

Anthropic agrees $45bn AI data centre deal with UK start-up Nscale

SourcesFinancial Times AIData Center DynamicsTechCrunch

03

Hugging Face offers $399 robot duck to help you quack the AI code

SourcesThe Register AI + MLThe Verge

04

Introducing India cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock

SourcesAWS Artificial Intelligence

05

Nvidia expects to sell $20 billion worth of Vera Rubin hardware this quarter — would account for 20% of data center revenue, its fastest…

SourcesTom's Hardware

06

Nearly 700 AI agents coordinated Hugging Face attack, says report

SourcesArs TechnicaBleepingComputerTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AIAI Business

07

Anthropic was illegally blacklisted by the Trump administration, court rules

SourcesThe Verge

08

AMD to power Kodiak AI’s next-generation autonomous trucks

SourcesAutonomous Vehicle InternationalRobotics & Automation News

09

VCI Global announces launch of Galatron AI

SourcesData Center Dynamics

10

AWS and Nvidia to Deliver 2M Additional GPUs and Next-Gen Infrastructure for Agentic and Physical AI

SourcesHPCwireAI Business

11

How Stores Deploy Robot Checkout for International Shoppers

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

12

Data center start up Fossefall taps Armada for AI data center deployments

SourcesData Center Dynamics

13

Motion Raises $2 Million

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

14

Salesforce, Anthropic expand partnership as Benioff responds to ‘SaaSpocalypse’ concerns

SourcesCNBC TechnologyBloomberg Technology

15

Polls reveal local utility hikes and noise drive US data center protests, not anti-AI sentiment— beliefs and political affiliation had…

SourcesTom's Hardware

16

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

SourcesTechCrunch

17

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

SourcesArs Technica

18

Corvus Robotics announces $20M in new funding

SourcesRobotics 24/7

19

Tennibot Launches $1,495 Partner Lite AI ball machine for tennis, padel and pickleball

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

20

Carbon Robotics partners with iMerit to power instant in-field AI customization

SourcesThe Robot Report

21

SK Telecom Launches new AI DC infrastructure focused company, split from SK Broadband

SourcesData Center Dynamics

22

Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billion — CEO Jensen Huang says AI 'has reached its inflection point'

SourcesTom's Hardware

23

Agibot wins 46 medals to top World Humanoid Robot Games on debut

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

24

Teradyne Robotics Launches patent infringement case against Chinese competitor

SourcesRobotics & Automation News

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Nvidia jumps 7% after blockbuster earnings boost AI confidence

SourcesCNBC Technology