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AI News
Aug 27, 2026 25

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

Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 37

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost ...

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 37

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individ...

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 54

Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 37

OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart chan...

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 36

Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall....

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 37

Plaud is launching AI earbuds

Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that's designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks l...

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 42

Adobe is adding more AI to Photoshop

Adobe is rolling out an AI-heavy update for Photoshop that includes a new "optional" interface dedicated to its AI tools. Launching in be...

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 54

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.

Research
Aug 27, 2026 46

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 62

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.

AI News
Aug 27, 2026 49

A quarter of Nvidia’s business next year comes from labs it is financing

Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billion Colette ...