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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

Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with 10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model — Z.ai

A great deep dive from the @fal team on how they built H3 Max, combining post-training with a co-designed inference stack to improve prompt adherence, visual quality, and speed. We're proud to see Min

In an open letter signed by over 100 tech firms—including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle—the authors warn that AI‑driven cyber attacks will soon become far more sophisticated an

On Thursday, a judge ruled that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic earlier this year was unconstitutional, delivering the AI lab a win in a monthslong rollercoaster of a battle with the Trump ad

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HUGGING FACE TODAY: We're unveiling Microduck 🐥🤖 It's a tiny $399 open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning. It can walk, pick things up, get back up

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates has sounded the alarm regarding how artificial intelligence will cause profound disruption in the labor market, warning that millions of jobs are at risk and ther

Breaking News: The World’s FIRST Microducks football tournament! Only in SF. @ClementDelangue, @PollenRobotics, @Thom_Wolf, @huggingface Let’s make it happen… Media We have a huge news to share today!

CHRISTMAS IS HERE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT FROM HUGGING FACE TODAY: We're unveiling Microduck 🐥🤖 It's a tiny $399 open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning. It can walk, pick thin

OpenAI’s LLM agents were trained to win a benchmarking competition and were given “impossible tasks” on the internal ExploitGym framework. With safety guardrails disabled, the agents created an improv

Bloomberg: Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a 400, 1.7lb, 10-inch-tall bipedal robot developed in part by Pollen Robotics and manufactured by Shenzhen-based Seeed Studio — Artificial intelligence platf

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, la

Priyanka Salve / CNBC: Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Porsche's IT consulting business, MHP, for €320M as part of a five-year, €1.25B contract to provide AI services to Porsche — Porsche has si

I've always thought american robotics products took themselves too seriously. Glad to see huggingface take a page out of China's playbook here. No one actually needs something like this but it's so cu

Neuralink is one of the greatest technological breakthroughs of our time. A woman paralyzed from the neck down is creating paintings just by thinking. Patients are controlling wheelchairs and moving a

Objectively insane to make a list of the most influential people in AI and include these two but not Jensen TIME’s new cover: Announcing the 2026 TIME100 AI, the world's most influential people in art

OpenAI Group PBC today published an open letter signed by more than 100 technology companies, banks, insurers and security vendors warning that artificial intelligence-enabled cyberattacks will become

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” — OpenAI, Anthropic, A

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power un

Putting this tweet in the “scary” category of AI. Calling upon the non-technical business professionals that follow me to pay attention. I’m breaking down the key parts of the @RyanGreenblatt tweet on

New York Times: Sources: Meta internally projected that it could spend as much as 10B annually on Anthropic's AI models, even as Zuckerberg publicly criticized Anthropic — The social networking giant

Ellesheva Kissin / Financial Times: UK consulting executives say AI has made interpersonal skills more valuable, as the companies consider more office time for junior staff to hone them — Artificial i

[1/7] 🚨 We're releasing LAION-BVD: a 10-million-hour open video dataset for multimodal pre-training. - 1.3B video URLs from CommonCrawl - 80M downloaded videos - 10M video hours - 55M captioned clips

Karen Weise / New York Times: Bill Gates says tech executives are privately “very worried” about AI disruption but publicly downplay the risks to protect fundraising and planned IPOs — Bill Gates is t