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TechCrunch 1 month ago 17
Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines and former OpenAI executive, has joined Google as vice president of research. He spent five months at OpenAI, leaving in June. His move shifts his RL and post-training work to Google’s Gemini team.
The New Stack 1 month ago 11 ● 4 sources
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face opened pre-orders for the Microduck, a $399 bipedal duck-adjacent robot that can walk, use roller skates, pick up objects, and recover when it falls. The company expects first deliveries before Christmas. The project ships as an open-source reinforcement learning training platform with an SDK and simulator, plus optional accessory packs for power and development.
Product Hunt 1 month ago 39 ● 4 sources
Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launched Microduck, a small open-source bipedal robot for sim-to-real reinforcement learning. It measures 25cm and costs $399. It comes with 7 pre-trained behaviors and an Apache 2.0 software stack that you can clone, modify, and retrain.
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16 October 2026
The biggest thread running through today’s AI news isn’t model quality; it’s control—over cost, over context, and over what agents do once they’re let loose. Anthropic’s expected IPO pricing, with some investors floating a valuation near $2.3–$2.4 trillion after a roughly $1.8 trillion price target, sharpens the same executive question CFOs have been asking: even if unit costs fall via open models, total spend can rise as adoption broadens. That pressure echoes in Uvi’s argument that agent platforms “relearn” company knowledge and charge customers again—switching from direct tool connections that can cost $0.75–$1.41 (or more) per answer to a semantic-layer approach priced around $0.10–$0.16.
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