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Hugging Face Debuts Microduck, an Adorable $399 Waddling Robot

It's aimed at AI developers that want to teach it new tricks through reinforcement learning.

VC founder says product managers and consultants will be hot hires in the AI era

Nicolas Sauvage, founder and president of TDK Ventures, said product managers will provide judgement and taste.

He left OpenAI to become a filmmaker. He said AI coding was 'lonelier' and 'mentally draining.'

Kasra Kyanzadeh worked at OpenAI for two months in what he called an "experiment." His conclusion: AI coding might have "gone too far."

Trump Keeps Boosting Data Centers, Even as Other Republicans Grow Critical

As voters in both parties grow anxious about the rapid build-out of data centers, President Donald Trump remains one of the tech industry’s most prominent champions — putting him increasingly at odds with members of his own party.

They confided in ChatGPT. Their secrets ended up in court.

When a teenage boy identified in court filings as R.K.C. didn’t understand his father, he turned to ChatGPT for help.

Sam Altman knows people hate data centers

"Clearly, people hate data centers—right now, at least," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

SpaceX is building its largest spaceport yet, committing $100 billion for a Louisiana site—adding to its list of billion-dollar expansion plans

It is quite apparent in SpaceX's IPO filings that the company has a constant goal of reaching Mars to build compute infrastructure and even human settlements on the red planet. In Elon Musk's first earnings call, he reiterated those goals, the very ones that led him to create the company over two decades ago. Now he is expanding his lofty space travel aspirations with a new real-estate and infrastructure investment.

Google DeepMind is losing its grip on elite AI talent

Over the last few years, the AI talent market has looked more like a professional sports draft than a conventional hiring cycle. Cash-rich labs are offering salaries more commonly associated with pro athletes, plus equity packages that can turn early employees into billionaires. The allure of life-changing paychecks has resulted in elite researchers swapping between rival labs at dizzying speed.

Hong Kong’s Votee AI is taking on English and Mandarin’s AI dominance with a Cantonese model

The AI boom is being driven by two languages: English and Mandarin Chinese. The leading AI developers—OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Z.ai, and others—are almost all based in either the U.S. or mainland China, and so their models perform best in their native tongues.

Asian stocks are mixed after Wall Street losses following economic updates

HONG KONG — Asian stocks were mixed on Thursday following modest losses on Wall Street, while oil prices declined.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang eats dinner with someone ‘and their stock price doubles the next day’

Korean fried chicken with the chairmen of SK Group and LG. Yellowtail sashimi at Nobu with Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Mapo tofu and whiskey with TSMC founder Morris Chang.

The Cow Comes Home: China's Internet Celebrates Z.ai Claiming Ownership of Ox Alpha

Chinese fans rejoiced at Z.ai claiming ownership of Ox Alpha, lauding the startup's new model and its use of domestic AI chips.