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Here's what happened this week under President Donald Trump's administration you may have missed.

Hugging Face goes from a 'scrappy' startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition

Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Beatrice Nolan. In today’s issue:

Why are AI safety experts alarmed by reports OpenAI’s Astra model uses “recurrent depth”?

AI safety experts are raising alarms about how OpenAI has built its soon-to-be-released frontier AI model Astra, saying it may hasten the day when humans will lose the ability to monitor the reasoning that AI agents are using. For its new model, OpenAI has employed a method alternately referred to as “recurrent depth” or “loooped Transformers” for a portion of the model’s internal architecture. The method can make AI models considerably more efficient by employing less computing power required to process each prompt—a valuable feature at a time when many businesses are complaining about the high costs of using the most advanced frontier AI models.

Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki

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Current price of gold: Month Day, Year

The price of gold stood at $4,371 per ounce as of 9 a.m. Eastern Time today. This marks a $120 decrease compared to the same time yesterday and a $1,008 jump from a year prior.

Google's Gemini Spark can now manage your Google Photos library

Gemini Spark can edit and curate photo albums, create shared collections, turn photos into calendar events, and handle other Google Photos tasks for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.

Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry on earnings beat: A record quarter from any measurement

CNBC’s Jon Fortt and Jay Chaudhry, Zscaler CEO, join 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss reporting an earnings beat, the Nvidia-Hugging Face deal, and more.

Labor Day marks the start of 'fallcations' as wealthy travelers avoid summer crowds

Wealthy travelers are moving their typical summer getaways to autumn.

Less than 24 hours to apply for your Disrupt 2026 Side Event

Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco. Apply before the application closes on September 4

Trump tells Fed to slash rates or he'll end trade with countries with U.S. surpluses

President Donald Trump demanded that the Fed slash interest rates or else he will cut off trade with countries with which the U.S. maintains trade deficits.

How AI data center outrage is becoming a bipartisan rallying cry in the midterm elections

Data center construction has become a hot button issue in the 2026 midterms, as AI buildouts are met with protests across the country. State and federal lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have taken notice and are showing more skepticism toward these construction projects as Election Day approaches.

Boomi Q&A: AI Research Head Michael Bachman on Agentic Chaos

Boomi's AI Research Head Michael Bachman explains how real-time data integration, robust governance and human oversight prevent enterprise agentic AI chaos