Big brains 🧠- Canadian universities poach A-list academics, Nvidia is buying Hugging Face.
· 7:48 · Episode 1066
Episode Big brains 🧠- Canadian universities poach A-list academics, Nvidia is buying Hugging Face.
Canada is luring dozens of world-leading researchers away from prestigious U.S. institutions with more than $500 million in funding, a talent grab that could help reverse the country’s slide in university rankings and turn more academic breakthroughs into commercial success.
Plus, Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy open-source AI hub Hugging Face for US$12.9 billion, a move that would give the chip giant a major foothold as the industry shifts toward open models and its biggest customers develop chips of their own.
And in The Big Picture: Trump renames Lake Ontario “Lake America,” Quebec heads to the polls, the FAA moves to fire air traffic controllers who left before a deadly crash, Canadians remain missing after flash floods in Asia, UEFA targets FIFA’s president, and more.
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