The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston…
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Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses? |
I am nothing if not a huge movie buff. I watch way too many of them, and I’m always on the hunt for a new…
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips |
In Brief Posted: 1:24 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses,…
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI |
12:30 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now,…
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets |
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight…
Brave's browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases |
11:50 AM PDT · August 28, 2026 Chrome alternative Brave just added a good reason to make the switch to its browser: email aliases. The…
More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey |
In Brief Posted: 8:57 AM PDT · August 28, 2026 The growing backlash against surveillance companies like Flock may have reached a tipping point. A…
Plaud's new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents |
Hardware companies have realized that note-taking is one of the easiest AI use cases to build for, and consequently have been busy shoving mics into…
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…
Hold up, there's a new Twitter in town |
7:40 AM PDT · August 27, 2026 You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being…