David Ellison Names His Empire Skydance After a Rocky Week on Wall Street
The Paramount CEO is inheriting the profitable streaming business David Zaslav spent years building, along with a debt sale that left bond investors nursing losses.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Is a Bid for A.I.’s Next Control Point
Nvidia already controls a critical A.I. resource in compute. By acquiring Hugging Face, argues A.I. strategy and enterprise-wide adoption expert René Bohnsack, it is positioning itself around another potential control point: the place where developers discover, evaluate and deploy models.
Nvidia Didn’t Buy Hugging Face for the Models
The Nvidia-Hugging Face deal points to a shift in A.I. economics, argues A.I. expert Mike Pino: as models become more accessible, the competitive advantage may lie in the ecosystems and workflow surfaces that turn capability into adoption.
