| | | "Soccer" is a British word. Oxford students coined it in the 1880s by taking "assoc" from "association football" and adding "-er" on the end because that was just how they talked. | Britain then quietly dropped it, handed it to America, and has spent the last century acting personally offended by it. You invented the word. Own it. | What’s in store: | Hugging Face has a new owner. Google wants you to stop opening Canva. Mindstream Picks: Aqara just unveiled a huge new smart lighting lineup. Our complete Gemini Notebook guide!
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| | | | | NVIDIA | | | Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, as it expands beyond chips and further into AI software. | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Hugging Face will stay open to the wider AI community. | Nvidia plans to give the platform more funding, improve its infrastructure and help more developers and organisations use it. | Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said he approached Nvidia over the summer because the company needed more money, scale and support to keep growing. | The deal came together quickly. | In brief: | Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Hugging Face will stay open to the wider AI community. Nvidia is expanding further into AI software and developer tools.
| Beyond the chip aisle | It would be Nvidia’s second-biggest acquisition, after its $20 billion purchase of Groq assets in December. | The deal also shows Nvidia is looking to become a bigger player in AI beyond the GPUs it is best known for. | Hugging Face was also recently hit by a cyberattack. | Delangue said the incident showed why open-source AI matters, while Huang said open models could help security teams work together to defend against attacks. | “Can we have some help? How about $13B?” - MV |
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| | | | | GEMINI HACKS | | | Gemini Notebook is the most underrated AI tool in the mainstream market — free, source-grounded, and packed with labor-saving "Studio" features most folks never touch. Seize Futurepedia's Gemini Notebook Playbook for a stacked guide to workflow efficiency and prompting like a specialist. | Knowledge base builder: The cleanest 5-step framework Studio panel content engine: Turn notes and files into videos, podcasts, mind maps, and slide decks 5 nifty use cases: Cruise through research sprints, content strategy, meeting notes, and more 18 AI prompts: Just click to copy-paste!
| Plus — how it stacks up vs. titans like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Notion. | |
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| | | | | Take me back! 🏴 | Is this pic of Edinburgh real or not? | The correct answer is at the bottom of the email! |
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| | | | | GOOGLE | | | Google is launching Google Pics, a new AI image tool for creating and editing visuals inside Google Workspace. | The tool uses Google’s Nano Banana image model and will roll out over the next few weeks to most Workspace users, plus Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. | Google Pics is made for everyday design tasks like posters, social posts, illustrations and work graphics. | Instead of building designs from scratch, users can type a prompt and let the AI create the image for them. | Here’s what it is in brief: | Create with prompts: Describe what you want and the AI makes it. Easy editing: Change objects, text and other parts of an image. Built into Workspace: It works inside Google’s existing work apps.
| A moment of silence for the office flyer | It also includes editing tools for changing objects, editing or translating text inside images, making several versions of the same image, and working on designs with other people. | Google Pics is starting in Docs and Slides, with Google Drive support coming later. | If you think I’m abandoning Canva, you’d be MISTAKEN, Google. - MG |
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| | | | Space: Scientists have discovered a giant 10-sided cloud pattern around Saturn’s south pole, challenging the idea that the planet’s famous northern hexagon was a unique phenomenon.
Business: Battery-electric cars became Britain’s biggest new-car fuel type in August, with registrations jumping 30% and capturing nearly 30% of the market.
Music: Noel Gallagher has hinted Oasis could tour again in summer 2027, adding to speculation sparked by Liam Gallagher’s previous comments about the band’s future. | Don’t Miss: Aqara has unveiled a new lineup of smart lighting, including a color-changing floor lamp, outdoor lights, light strips, and downlights. The devices support both Zigbee and Thread, allowing them to work with major Matter smart home platforms like Apple Home, Google Home, and Alexa. |
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| | | | Image of the Day |  | Artwork submitted by Mindstream reader James: “A D&D character portrait of a giant frog” |
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| | | | “Would you trust AI with this level of cybersecurity power?” | Yes, with heavy safeguards - 25% | Nope, keep the locks on - 75% ✅ | Your Views: | “We want power in compute” - kenabon | “AI security needs regularly scheduled tests and audits like the large banks and the nuclear capabilities.” - esch | “Not only the locks are not on, but they tease competitors in racing further... we 'll all end up encrypted with BTC ransoms soon” - auz6sv | Submit your opinions in our polls to be featured! |
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