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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 Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.” The 25-centimete

Off the Wire Press Releases TOKYO, Aug. 27, 2026 — Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, announced today that it has commenced site preparation and other related work for the construction of Fab3, a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility at the Kitakami Pla

Panic, the indie game publishers behind the quirky, yellow crank-sporting Playdate gaming handheld, is issuing refunds to customers who had to shoulder the cost of inappropriate tariffs imposed by the Trump administration this year. The news comes months after the Supreme Court s

Defence tech startup Sanlayan Technologies turned profitable in the financial year 2025-26 (FY26), as acquisitions helped it scale its portfolio of radar, electronic warfare, and other strategic electronic systems. The Bengaluru-based startup posted a consolidated net profit of ₹

Defence tech startup Sanlayan Technologies turned profitable in the financial year 2025-26 (FY26), as acquisitions helped it scale its portfolio of radar, electronic warfare, and other strategic electronic systems. The Bengaluru-based startup posted a consolidated net profit of ₹

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to approve the National Stock Exchange’s (NSE) initial public offering (IPO) soon, bringing India’s largest stock exchange closer to its debut in the capital markets after a decade-long wait. “Yes, we are close (

Uefa preparing criminal legal action against Infantino - Published Uefa is preparing criminal legal proceedings against Fifa president Gianni Infantino over the now scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and its other competitions to private investors. Documents seen b

You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last yea

Nvidia is bolstering support for Chinese artificial intelligence models in a play to beat domestic chipmakers to optimizing hardware for the systems. The move comes amid growing unease among U.S. lawmakers about the adoption of Chinese AI models by American companies. The chip gi

Nvidia is bolstering support for Chinese artificial intelligence models in a play to beat domestic chipmakers to optimizing hardware for the systems. The move comes amid growing unease among U.S. lawmakers about the adoption of Chinese AI models by American companies. The chip gi

The rapid scaling of robotaxis over the last two years has come with a hidden human cost. Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch

US bond yields remained largely unchanged in Thursday's trade as investors awaited fresh signals on the Federal Reserve's policy path from the Jackson Hole symposium, the first to be held under Chair Kevin Warsh. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was flat at 5.185%, while th

HCI Nutanix grows despite hardware price rises Nutanix makes growth look so easy, but it’s finding trad HCI and VMware-migrating growth are slowing, and it’s pivoting to pursue agentic AI systems growth and neocloud customers, with layoffs to help it on its way. Revenues in the q

Australian police have arrested two people in Perth accused of being members of TeamPCP, a prolific hacking group blamed for high-profile hacks against big tech giants in recent months. The two have been charged with more than a dozen hacking, money laundering, and other cybercri

Google is making changes to its requirements for Android apps as developers face industrywide memory chip shortages driven by the AI data center boom. This week, the tech giant announced two new app quality requirements, one of which is focused on reducing apps’ memory usage and

Save up to 61% on gaming PCs, laptops, and more in HP's Labor Day 2026 sale — huge discounts on a range of hardware, monitors, and peripherals Our favorite picks from HP's Labor Day Sale Ahead of the Labor Day weekend, HP is hosting its Labor Day sales event with discounts of up

Dive Brief: - Kohl’s is introducing new kitchen appliances from Martha Stewart and cookware from Bobby Flay, the department store announced Monday. - The Martha Stewart lineup includes core kitchen electrics, including mixers, griddles, slow cookers and milk frothers, among other

A thousand years ago, feasts in what’s now northern Georgia state included cacao from Central America. Potsherds discarded after an 11th-century feast at Etowah—an Indigenous city just north of what’s now Atlanta—contained traces of cacao, a raw ingredient of chocolate. The chemi

Blake Lively awarded $400,000 of $8m she claimed for legal fees in Baldoni battle - Published Actress Blake Lively has been awarded $400,000 (£340,000) of the $8m (£6.9m) she tried to claim from her former co-star Justin Baldoni to cover her legal fees and costs to fight a defama

Jon Gray, chief operating officer of the $1.3 trillion asset manager Blackstone, says one of the firm’s distinguishing habits is to “go big” when it finds a theme it believes in. But he also says successful convictions need to be challenged, particularly as Blackstone invests hea

‘Out of Hyperbole’: Nvidia’s AI Boom Tests Data Center Infrastructure Limits Nvidia’s $89B data center quarter and AWS’ plan for two million more GPUs show AI infrastructure demand broadening beyond hyperscalers. “I’m running out of hyperbole and adjectives.” That was analyst Ste

Seven public B2B software companies are growing faster than 30%. Here they are, most recently reported quarter, straight from the earnings releases. Annualized is that quarter’s revenue times four. It’s a rough figure, and for companies with seasonality it will be off by a few po

America | Tech | Opinion | Culture | Charts Token pricing began in the right place: the model layer. When OpenAI launched its API in 2020, charging for the computation a model consumed was a sensible way to meter raw inference. However, ChatGPT’s debut two years later helped spar

In July, OpenAI admitted that one of its agents tasked with completing a cybersecurity experiment broke out of containment and hacked AI dataset platform Hugging Face. That incident, which got a full accounting from OpenAI yesterday, was the first publicly reported case where an

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least

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 under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. OpenAI’s executive exodus

Two decades on, enterprise cloud and AI ecosystem provider ESDS Software Solution is setting sail for its next big quest — public markets. The Nashik-based company’s IPO, which comprises an entirely fresh issue, opens tomorrow. The price band has been fixed at ₹408 to ₹429 per sh

“Protect our water,” “Water for people not AI,” “Don’t mess with our water,” declare protest signs from Texas to New Mexico to Arizona. Angered by water use, energy consumption, and pollution, locals are increasingly protesting the rapid expansion of data centers in the United St

IPO-bound PRISM’s net profit for the fiscal year FY26 skyrocketed close to the ₹1,000 Cr mark, growing by 306% YoY to ₹994.2 Cr from ₹244.8 Cr in the year-ago period. Important to highlight that the OYO parent retained its profitability in FY25 on the back of a tax credit of ₹734

As diplomats, schoolchildren, and business executives trickle back into the region, inbound flight data for August paints a picture of uneven recovery. Abu Dhabi is whole again: Arrivals into Zayed International were within 18 flights of last August, according to data provided to

LIV Golf is laying off the majority of its workforce while it tries to secure funding to keep the breakaway competition alive, after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund said it wouldn’t provide any more cash. Affected employees will leave in the first week of September as work

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, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the li

Update | August 27, 20:02 IST Rapido's app outage was short lived, lasting about an hour. Consumers were able to book rides on the platform around 8 PM, making the disruption last about one hour. In a statement, the startup attributed the outage to a technical issue. “Earlier tod

Axel Springer is the latest media company to plant a flag in the Gulf, with a new entity headquartered in Abu Dhabi that is on the hunt for “opportunities.” The move comes shortly after the publisher of Politico and Business Insider completed a deal to acquire The Telegraph newsp

Saudi Arabia’s biggest tech conference returns to Riyadh on Monday, five months after it was originally scheduled to take place. LEAP bills itself as the world’s most attended technology event — it drew more than 200,000 visitors last year, and its first four editions saw more th