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AUGUST 30, 2026

August 30, 2026 edition · 16 stories

  1. Fast Company AI

    Introducing the Fast Company Pacesetters

    Meet 40 executives who are finding innovative ways to integrate generative artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and machine learning into their businesses and customer experience.

  2. Harvard Business Review

    What Slows Innovation Down

    In the August 24 edition of The Insider newsletter, managing editor Gretchen Gavett writes on how AI can actually deepen human bottlenecks, becoming a conversation steward, and more.

  3. The Verge AI

    Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

    Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing one of the most popular hosting platforms for open-source AI models, datasets, and tools under the ownership of the world's biggest AI chipmaker. Hugging Face is an online platform founded in 2016 that gives AI developers a space to share their projects and data with other users and the general public. It's often described as the "GitHub" for AI due to its browsable library of open-source machine learning models and emphasis on c

  4. The Verge AI

    Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ‘distraction-free Windows experience’ for developers

    Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith. While the software maker originally announced a similar developer-optimized Windows effort at Build earlier this year, Project Zenith is designed for new developer-focused devices with 64GB or more of unified memory. "Project Zenith devices come with a preconfigured Windows setup for development and a set of tools curated for what developers reach for first," explains Logan Iyer, CVP of Windows platform and de