Welcome back to the daily tech digest. Today, we've got a massive story dominating the AI landscape—a potential mega-merger that could reshape the entire open-source ecosystem. But we're not just talking about big corporate moves. We're diving deep into engineering feats, from saving 100 terabytes of memory to the rise of small, efficient AI models. We'll also cover everything from the latest in robotics and web development to the increasingly turbulent political landscape of AI. So grab your coffee, and let's get into the news.

Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:34 Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B 2:26 Small Models Have Arrived 4:45 GLM-5.3 is now open-weight 6:16 Gemini-3.5-Transcribe 7:56 The turbulent AI era is here 9:48 Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache 11:14 Htmx 4.0 13:15 Microduck 15:05 507 Mechanical Movements 16:31 U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective 18:16 "IT WoRKs BeTter in the App" 20:13 Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 21:54 We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer 23:18 Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude 24:42 Outro

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