Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck |

Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and ships before Christmas. Clem Delangue, CEO of…

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand' |

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million…

Frontier AI labs still won't say how they'd contain a rogue model |

Few of the top AI labs have published or demonstrated containment response plans, according to a recent study. A containment plan spells out what happens…

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine |

Anthropic’s universal usage standards for Claude forbid the model from generating sexually explicit content, including depicting or requesting sexual intercourse or sex acts, generating content…

Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup |

Elon Musk’s SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition as it works to catch up to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI race,…

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise |

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital. Thrive…

As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it |

New York-based AI detection startup Pangram is on a mission to combat the AI slop infestation spreading across the internet, and it just raised $9…

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence partners with Nvidia to scale its AI research |

After two years in stealth, Safe Superintelligence, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI co-founder and alignment lead Ilya Sutskever, has announced a long-term partnership…

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions |

Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on…

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded |

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup…