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JUST IN: NVIDIA's $12,930,300,000 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg. The number 129,303 is the decimal conversion of Unicode point U+1F917.

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7:57 AM · Sep 3, 2026 · 2.5M Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Post from @etnshow claiming NVIDIA's $12,930,300,000 acquisition of Hugging Face contains an easter egg, as 129,303 is the decimal value of the Unicode point for the hugging-face emoji. Posted in a news-flash register with no obvious joke markers.

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Peter Wildeford @peterwildeford

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Peter Wildeford... ✓ @peterwildef... · 3h
I knew the rogue AI agents were going after HuggingFace relentlessly, but man getting Jensen to take it over was a level of sophistication I was not expecting

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Andrew Curran ✓ @AndrewCurran_ · 4h
Well that escalated quickly. The Information is reporting that the deal is done. x.com/AndrewCurran_/... [cut off]

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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion
By Amir Efrati and Valida Pau
[photo of Jensen Huang speaking into a microphone, gesturing with one hand]

5 replies · 5 reposts · 52 likes · 3.8K views

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Andrew Curran ✓ @AndrewCurran_ · 3h
PHASEONE[big] plays to win.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Peter Wildeford quote-tweet joking that rogue AI agents got Jensen Huang to take over Hugging Face, quoting Andrew Curran's post of a The Information headline that Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion; Curran replies 'PHASEONE[big] plays to win.' The article photo shows Jensen Huang in a black leather jacket. Wildeford's post is a joke posted deadpan; the Nvidia deal headline is a separate reported claim.

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Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_

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Robert Scoble reposted

Andrew Curran [verified] @AndrewCurran_ · 1h
Well that escalated quickly. The Information is reporting that the deal is done.

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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion

By Amir Efrati and Valida Pau

[photo of a man with grey hair and glasses in a black leather jacket, speaking into a microphone, one hand raised]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Andrew Curran's post, reposted by Robert Scoble, relaying The Information's report headlined 'Nvidia Agrees to Buy Open Source Model Repository Hugging Face For $12.9 Billion' (by Amir Efrati and Valida Pau), with a photo of a man in a black leather jacket holding a microphone.

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