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  "id": 16993961,
  "title": "DOJ Probes Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Over AI Competition Concerns",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/doj-probes-nvidias-hugging-face-deal-over-ai-competition-concerns",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-29T01:44:07.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.pymnts.com/legal/2026/doj-probes-nvidias-hugging-face-deal-over-ai-competition-concerns/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Justice Department is looking into whether Nvidia’s deal to acquire Hugging Face could harm competition in the artificial intelligence industry by giving the company a control of a key distribution point, Reuters reported Wednesday (Oct. 28), citing unnamed sources. The inquiries the Justice Department has made about the acquisition are part of a larger […] The post DOJ Probes Nvidia’s…",
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      {
        "outlet": "CNBC",
        "title": "Nvidia's $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal draws DOJ scrutiny",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/nvidias-12-9-billion-hugging-face-deal-draws-doj-scrutiny",
        "published": "2026-10-28T20:23:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Sources: the US DOJ has inquired about the impact of Nvidia's Hugging Face deal on AI competition, as antitrust enforcers continue to probe Nvidia's conduct (Reuters)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/sources-the-us-doj-has-inquired-about-the-impact-of-nvidias-hugging",
        "published": "2026-10-28T23:00:49.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "US DOJ is inquiring about Nvidia's purchase of Hugging Face",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/us-doj-is-inquiring-about-nvidias-purchase-of-hugging-face",
        "published": "2026-10-29T02:47:26.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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