The Most Useful New AI Features and Tools to Try
August 28, 2026
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5 min readAI’s Most Useful New Features: A Weekly Roundup
Anthropic quietly gave Claude its own browser. Google released a speech-to-text model that cleans up your rambling thoughts. Salesforce revealed it’s on track to pull in $1.5 billion from its AI product this year. And a new video model from Fal can generate a clip faster than you can watch it. These were just some of the developments in a week dense with practical AI releases, alongside major news about Nvidia’s blockbuster earnings and its $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face.
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face — and the Open-Source Ecosystem
The most consequential corporate news of the week came late Wednesday: Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. The deal values the open-source model hub at roughly 80 times its $150 million in annualized revenue — a steep multiple that underscores Nvidia isn’t buying for revenue. It’s buying distribution. Hugging Face is the primary channel through which developers discover, download, and fine-tune open models, nearly all of which run on Nvidia GPUs via CUDA.
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- 2 (00:00) **Episode Introduction and Sponsor Announcements** - Host previews the week's most exciting new AI features and tools, then covers housekeeping and sponsor messages
- 3 (01:18) **NVIDIA Acquires Hugging Face for $12.9 Billion** - Breaking news that NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the premier open model distribution platform
- 4 (05:19) **NVIDIA Earnings: Revenue Surges 106%, But Warning Signs Emerge** - NVIDIA reports blowout earnings with quarterly sales of $96.2 billion, but flags slowing growth and customer payment delays
- 5 (07:06) **NVIDIA Pauses Neocloud Revenue Sharing Program** - The company halts a recently announced financing deal program after internal concerns about antitrust scrutiny
- 6 (08:03) **Salesforce Leads SaaS Comeback with Agent Force Success** - Salesforce reports strong earnings, with Agent Force on track for $1.5 billion in revenue, refuting the "SaaS-pocalypse" narrative
- 7 (10:25) **App-Layer Revenue Explosion: Cognition Hits $900M Run Rate** - New data shows massive revenue growth across AI application companies
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Show Notes
Claude gets its own browser, ChatGPT adds more flexible temporary chats and multiple Gmail connections, and new voice and video models promise cleaner transcription, greater control and dramatically faster generation. NLW rounds up the week’s most useful launches from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Hermes and others. In the headlines: NVIDIA buys Hugging Face, Salesforce leads a software comeback and a proposed self-regulatory body for AI stalls.
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