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Infrastructure Everybody Depends On Should Not Be Owned by a Competitor

Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for something near $13bn. The deal will probably clear, because nothing in it looks like a conventional overlap. That is a fact about how we assess acquisitions, not about whether this one is fine.

By Margaret Holloway · 53 minutes ago

Business

The Shortage Made Room on the Shelf. A Second Supplier Is a Harder Thing to Build.

Four years after a single plant closure emptied American shelves, formula capacity is being added. The largest project by far is Mead Johnson putting several hundred million dollars and 600,000 square feet into the plant it already owns in Zeeland, Michigan. Two much smaller lines are going into Ohio.

By Alison Acosta · September 4, 2026