Show Notes
A packed Monday morning in AI: Amazon is in talks to acquire real-time video startup Decart for around $7 billion, Nvidia eyes Reflection AI, the White House's push to rename AI as 'Super Intelligence' starts hitting corporate America, and a string of massive funding rounds signals where institutional money is flowing. Plus, Nvidia's pending acquisition of Hugging Face raises big open-source questions.
Sources: • https://riorundown.substack.com/p/trending-ai-news-oct-12-2026
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