Hugging Face AI Updates: May 22, 2026

1. huggingface_hub 1.16.0 expands Together multimodal tasks, hardens token files, and centralizes hf:// parsing

Hugging Face. The official Python client huggingface_hub shipped version 1.16.0 on May 21, broadening Together’s Inference Providers footprint with five new task types (feature extraction, text-to-speech, automatic speech recognition, image-to-image, and text-to-video), although ASR was rolled back in a follow-up 1.16.1 hotfix to clear a dependency issue. The release also tightens local credential handling by creating token files with 0o600 file and 0o700 directory permissions, matching the on-disk posture of GitHub CLI, AWS CLI, and Google Cloud SDK, and consolidates scattered hf:// URI logic behind parse_hf_uri and parse_hf_mount helpers so special characters in filenames and mounts are handled consistently across the library. CLI changes include a global --no-truncate flag for full scalar values in human-mode tables, exposure of job runtime fields in hf jobs ps and inspect, support for hf cache rm against hf:// URIs, server-side log tailing through the Jobs API, and a new ephemeral_storage field on JobHardware. Breaking changes: BucketUrl.handle is renamed to BucketUrl.uri and single-segment repo IDs are no longer accepted in paths, which will affect any code that previously relied on bare names without an owner prefix. Source