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Nvidia-Hugging Face Acquisition Under Antitrust Scrutiny

The US Justice Department is reviewing Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face, focusing on control over model distribution. The case signals a possible shift of bottleneck from hardware to distribution.

Detected: 2026-10-30 ยท Updated: 2026-10-30

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