Nvidia's Hugging Face openness pledge identifies US, EU antitrust fault line
By Flavia Fortes and Andrew Boyce ( September 3, 2026, 18:12 GMT | Comment) -- Nvidia’s promise to preserve Hugging Face as an open, hardware-neutral platform anticipates what is likely to become the central issue in the antitrust reviews of its $12.93 billion acquisition: whether the dominant supplier of artificial-intelligence chips could use control of a critical developer platform to reinforce its position across the AI ecosystem.Nvidia’s promise to preserve Hugging Face as an open, hardware-neutral platform anticipates what is likely to become the central issue in the antitrust reviews of its $12.93 billion acquisition: whether the dominant supplier of artificial-intelligence chips could use control of a critical developer platform to reinforce its position across the AI ecosystem....
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