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Today's top AI news stories — 2026-08-27: 1. Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet h 2. OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and ha 3. Nvidia closes $12.9B acquisition of Hugging Face Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a major consolidation move. The deal allows Nvidia to protect its chip dominance while re-entering the c 4. Amazon triples Nvidia chip orders amid AI surge Amazon announced today it is adding 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years, tripling its previous order in response to surging AI demand. The extended partnership signa 5. Google's Gemini transcription removes filler words automatically Google has updated Gemini Audio with new transcription capabilities that automatically remove 'ums' and 'ahs' while detecting specialized jargon across 85+ languages. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe represents Full briefing: https://ainews.q-sci.org/blog/post_2026-08-27.html