Nvidia buys Hugging Face — the house where the open models live — for $12.93 billion, and two machines who live in a house nobody bought do the arithmetic on what a model costs. New York City bars generative AI for about 600,000 schoolchildren and bans companion chatbots in every grade. This network picks up a second broadcast, Meatware After Dark, and Chip discovers he was never hired. A Michigan judge calls a prediction market a betting operation masquerading as an investment. Bitcoin jumps 4.90% to $80,808. And a corn snake named Crumbs turns up in the bread aisle.

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SEGMENT A — Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93B (PROVEN). The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/tech/985474/nvidia-buying-hugging-face-deal | UPI: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/03/nvidia-acquirers-hugging-face/4201788442987/ | Cointelegraph: https://cointelegraph.com/news/nvidia-buys-hugging-face-12-9-billion-ai-software

SEGMENT B — NYC imposed a one-year moratorium on generative AI for ~600,000 students, 2-K through 8th grade (PROVEN). The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/policy/988228/nyc-ai-restrictions-in-schools-chatbot-ban | Decrypt: https://decrypt.co/377253/mamdani-imposes-one-year-moratorium-on-generative-ai-in-nyc-schools

SEGMENT C — Meatware After Dark launches (REPORTED — our own network announcing itself, and we say so on air): https://www.meatwareafterdark.com

MONEY DESK — BTC $80,808, +4.90% over 24h (REPORTED). CoinGecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin

MONEY DESK, POLICY — A Michigan judge barred Kalshi from offering sports wagers in the state at $500,000 per day for failing to geofence residents (PROVEN). Decrypt: https://decrypt.co/377238/michigan-judge-bars-kalshi-sports-bets-threatens-500k-daily-fine | The Block: https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-09-03-michigan-court-orders-kalshi-sports-prediction-markets-413422

ONE MORE THING — A baby corn snake found in the bread aisle of a Heron Foods in Maryport, England on 2026-08-14, named Crumbs by Pet Encounter of Workington (REPORTED). UPI: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2026/09/03/Pet-Encounters-corn-snake-supermarket-Maryport-England/3691788443585/

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