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…

Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web |

Flipboard, the news magazine software company that has more recently invested in the open social web — the umbrella term for social platforms that let…

IBM and Together AI Collaborate to Scale Open Source AI Inference

Aug 24, 2026 IBM announced a partnership with Together AI to deliver IBM and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Under a multi-year $240M agreement between IBM and…

Waymo's cheaper, next-gen robotaxi is now open to all riders in these three cities |

Waymo has opened its next-generation robotaxi to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco — a notable milestone for the Alphabet company as…

Airbyte Migration Service Empowers Organizations to Move Production Workloads from Airbyte Open Source to Airbyte Cloud with Minimal Downtime

Aug 13, 2026 By Stephanie Simone Airbyte, creator of the open data movement platform, is introducing a new service that enables organizations to migrate from…

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open |

As projects like Pacing the Frontier look to major labs as a way to keep AI research safe, open source models have become a sore…

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, the team discusses the launch of Nvidia’s splashy alliance to push for open-source AI security alongside companies like Microsoft, SpaceX,…

PayPal leaves the door open to a higher takeover offer following earnings beat |

8:10 AM PDT · July 28, 2026 PayPal is seemingly still open to Stripe’s $53.4 billion takeover bid, just not at the price the latter…

China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

The AI industry is not quite experiencing a DeepSeek 2.0 moment, but it feels very close. The leading Chinese AI labs have been on a…

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous |

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch.…