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Hugging Face Explores Sale That Could Value It Above $13 Billion
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a potential sale of the company, with sources telling Business Insider the deal could value the AI platform at more than $13 billion — nearly triple the $4.5 billi...
Hugging Face's State of Open Models report for Summer 2026 reveals a pivotal shift in the open-weigh...
Hugging Face's State of Open Models report for Summer 2026 reveals a pivotal shift in the open-weight AI ecosystem. The report highlights that Qwen models have become the community's foundational base...
Hugging Face is making the case that open-weight AI models are critical for cyber defense, particula...
Hugging Face is making the case that open-weight AI models are critical for cyber defense, particularly during active attacks. The argument comes amid a surge in AI-powered cyber threats, with the com...
Hugging Face hack marks start of agentic AI cyber era, execs warn firms 'don't even know it'
Cybersecurity executives at Black Hat 2026 are reframing last month's Hugging Face breach as a watershed moment for AI safety, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all disclosing additional agent-driven i...
Hugging Face CEO warns China may win the open AI race due to its open-source strategy
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clement Delangue has publicly stated that China's aggressive open-source AI strategy could position it as the next AI superpower, directly challenging current US domina...
Hugging Face Faces Deepfake Nudes Crisis as Researchers Find Easy Exploit in Image Models
Researchers from the European nonprofit AI Forensics published findings showing that seven of nine top image-editing Spaces on Hugging Face could easily generate nonconsensual deepfake nudes using a s...
Hugging Face repels AI-powered cyberattack on production infrastructure using open-weight model GLM 5.2
On July 16, Hugging Face disclosed that it detected and repelled a sophisticated AI-driven cyberattack targeting its production infrastructure. The attacker used an autonomous agent network built from...
Hugging Face BigCode models leaderboard hosts DeepSeek Coder generations
The BigCode project's models leaderboard on Hugging Face now includes community-submitted generation outputs from DeepSeek's open-weight code model, DeepSeek Coder 6.7B Instruct. The files, contribute...