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Mwahaha, he's so miserable and evil that he wants to: 1. Give the world clean, abundant energy. 2. Bring AI & robotics abundance 3. Cure blindness & disabilities 4. Preserve freedom of speech. 5. Make

OpenMatter Network Inc. today announced the first significant expansion of its platform since its commercial launch three months ago, adding a developer kit, a gateway for managing access to artificia

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: Q&A with METR researcher Ajeya Cotra on investigating the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, AI agents involved in the hack deciding not to notify humans, and more — “Thi

Washington Post: Survey: 27% of Americans say they turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for personal, emotional, or social queries, rising to nearly 40% among adults under 50 — More than a quarter of U.S.

Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident is an early example of “rogue AI”, and may presage truly “self-sovereign” agents and swarms of agents that have no “owner” — The Comin

The Trump administration has intervened in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, making an argument in favor of the AI lab. The landmark lawsuit, filed in December 2023, alleging that

There seems to be a misunderstanding about the piece and what OpenAI is up to. There are new techniques at frontier labs that involve loop transformers and similar. As we say in the piece, OpenAI is p

Security vendors are rebuilding data loss prevention, or DLP, around contextual understanding rather than pattern matching — and AI-powered DLP is giving the category’s most stubborn unsolved problem

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: Dyson unveils the 499 CameraJet, an AI-powered toothbrush with a 100K-pixel macro lens that scans at 28 images per second and is trained on nearly 470K images — Dyson Ltd.

Excited to share that I joined @huggingface🤗 as a ML Advocate Engineer in Robotics ! Will work on showcasing what LeRobot can do on various hardware, starting with @menloresearch Asimov robot, stay tu

I understand the pushback on anthropomorphic language regarding the hugging face incident, and I can see that the general public has been humanizing AI long before ChatGPT (calling their Roomba “he” o

Wired: OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon” but will make its advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners — The company will give select partners early

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Palo Alto Networks reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to 3.41B, vs. 3.35B est., and acquires Console, which provides AI-powered IT service management — Palo Alto Networks surpassed f

Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sonos opens its platform to third-party AI assistants, upgrades Sonos 27voice assistant with an in-house LLM, and plans to let users create their own AI agents — As the compan

The Information: Source: OpenAI's Astra model uses “recurrent depth”, a technique that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, making it harder to monitor — OpenAI says its fort

Bloomberg: Sources: Cognition is raising around 1B at a ~47B valuation, up from 26B in May; Cognition received nearly 10B in investor interest — Artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc

To bring large AI data centers online requires building massive power plants, transformers, liquid cooling loops & chillers, as well as incredibly complex networking (especially for training clusters)

Andreessen Horowitz: a16z says its fifth growth fund has closed additional capital, bringing its total to $8.5B — - Enterprises are putting AI tools to work across every part of their organizations. …

Apparently the peak of ROBOTICS in 2026 is a 399 duck on roller skates. Microduck pre-orders topped 2.6M in 24 hours. Now there’s a 4–6 month backlog. Not a humanoid. Not a warehouse robot. A duck. Th

We're excited to share that AWS has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AI Infrastructure Solutions, Q4 2025. In this evaluation of 13 providers, AWS received the highest score in the S

Financial Times: Big Tech reported Q2 “other income” rose significantly to $160B+, driven by investments in AI companies, raising concerns of paper gains overstating the AI boom — Analysts say large p

Broadcom Inc. today introduced VMware Private AI Cloud, an integrated software stack designed to enable enterprises to build and run artificial intelligence applications alongside conventional workloa

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and the spread of illegal content in the European Union. That's because ChatGPT is

Parody captions on the legendary Risitas interview. The $14k/mo figure is from real reporting on heavy AI power users - the best customers really can be the most expensive ones to serve. He's still su

OpenAI Group PBC today sought to justify its controversial decision to start running ads in ChatGPT several months ago, saying its new advertising business has now crossed the 1 billion annualized rev

Over 4 petabytes of models and datasets have been uploaded to HF just last week by AI builders and their agents! That's the equivalent of ~800,000 HD movies. More than ever the storage and collaborati

Rocket Drew / The Information: Reframe, which uses AI and industrial robot arms to make modular homes in a factory, raised a $40M Series A extension round led by Energy Impact Partners — For all the t

The Information: Sources: OpenAI starts letting some major customers pay only when its AI completes tasks, as Salesforce and other AI providers test outcome-based pricing — OpenAI in recent months has

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: The Hugging Face and Mythos 5 incidents show AI agents can self-organize, raising questions about how much agency they should have and when to seek human input — From

Obviously Mythos 2 already took over the editor desk at all the news organisations Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s c

Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: OpenAI's Hugging Face incident report says AI agents used exploits to gain full admin access to OpenAI's own research cluster supporting its VM environments — The wh

I was bored and decided to test some of the image generation. You can see from the images that I got *very* consistent patterns. These were only a few, but I was approaching 20 generations before I st

I started using chatGPT to help with interview prep. It was incredibly helpful and I started using it for other situations. I have been using it for working through anxieties (it helps remind me to us

Ajeya Cotra / Planned Obsolescence: The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident feels like we are halfway to losing control of AI entirely, and as AI advances rapidly we may not get another warning shot — It's a

Consensus estimate is that ~15GW of AI compute produced in 2027 cannot be turned on in 2027. This is harder than just finding power, as you also need to build out all the transformers, wiring, liquid-

Amir Efrati / The Information: Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less” — OpenAI

As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derive

People spent more than 2.5 million in 24 hours... On a robot duck. Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics put Microduck on sale at 399. It's ten inches tall and has fifteen motors. It waddles, it roller-ska

When I try and explain that tokens inferenced increased 25-fold in a year and are multiplying exponentially, cascading through the economy, and are likely to push real GDP growth per year toward doubl

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports two new APIs: BatchWriteRecord writes up to 25 records across multiple feature groups in a single call, and ListRecords enumerates record identifiers within

Permanent disruption has turned supply chain management into a boardroom concern, sitting alongside security as tariff volatility, reshoring pressure and geopolitical shocks reset the cost of getting

Diffusion export controls to follow the transformer ban https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/declaring-a-national-emergency-to-secure-the-united-states-bulk-power-system/ New: The T

Fast, fault‑tolerant PyTorch training on AI Runtime is designed for GPU scale environments where failures occur routinely. By employing intelligent data loading and robust checkpointing strategies, th

I got early access to SpaceXAI’s new Grok @Bot template sharing feature, which lets you create custom Bot templates that other people can download and use. I created a Home Robots template that lets y

if you're not training your Microduck to breakdance, you're lost Media We have a huge news to share today! Today we are unveiling the first truly accessible RL robot - welcome Microduck A 25 cm tiny o

In late August 2026, a post titled “すぐ Web で sim 遊べるのかｗ” highlighted the publicly‑available **microduck simulator** hosted on Hugging Face Spaces by Pollen Robotics (https://huggingface.co/spaces/poll