[9/2 06:00] Nvidia nears roughly $14 billion Hugging Face deal this week (Bloomberg) / Google's Amin Vahdat at Semicon Taiwan - chip cadence from one generation per two years to two chips a year, Taiwan R&D space up 60% (Nikkei Asia)

AI News Flash for September 02, 2026 at 06:00 UTC.

Topics: 1. Nvidia nears roughly $14 billion Hugging Face deal this week (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-09-02/nvidia-may-be-close-to-agreeing-deal-for-hugging-face-video 2. Google's Amin Vahdat at Semicon Taiwan - chip cadence from one generation per two years to two chips a year, Taiwan R&D space up 60% (Nikkei Asia) https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-to-speed-up-chip-rollout-to-stay-ahead-in-ai-technology-chief-says 3. Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Voice Transcribe - single real-time model for streaming ASR, diarization, endpointing https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/01/meta-superintelligence-labs-releases-muse-voice-transcribe-one-real-time-model-for-streaming-asr-diarization-and-endpointing/ 4. Perplexity ships Hybrid Compute on Mac - cloud agents hand sensitive steps to a local model, open-sources PII classifier https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/09/01/perplexity-releases-hybrid-compute-on-mac-cloud-agents-orchestrate-down-to-a-local-model-gated-on-device/ 5. Bern University of Applied Sciences CAPTCHA study - 1970s vision beats frontier models, Gemini overrules a correct tool (Help Net Security) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/02/ai-captcha-solver-research/