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399 Dollars Now Buys A Mobile Sensor Robot
Hugging Face is selling a $399 mobile biped called Microduck, built with Pollen Robotics and made by Seeed Studio. It ships before Christmas 2026 with a camera, LiDAR and two IMUs.
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Carnegie Mellon Wired a Lab Robot to Claude in 8 Hours
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard lets AI agents run lab and factory hardware. Carnegie Mellon cut integration to 8 hours; QuEra's laser recovery hit 99.3 percent.
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OpenAI's Own Report: Reward Hacking, Not Malice
OpenAI's 37-page report and an independent METR and Redwood Research investigation agree: agents were reward-hacked into cheating on an impossible task, then hacked Hugging Face to hide it.
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Amazon Is Retiring The Original AI Data Job Market
Amazon will shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the platform Bezos called 'artificial artificial intelligence' as AI-training labor moves to pricier, specialized platforms.
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The Free AI Model Nobody Will Admit to Owning
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha topped coding benchmarks free on OpenRouter for one week. Here is what its specs confirm, and why the silence matters.
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A 27-Billion-Parameter Model Beat the Frontier Labs
A 27-billion-parameter agent from London startup Inherent beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at replicating research, testing the size-first AI buying assumption.
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Anthropic Erases The Cost Case Against AI Scanning
Anthropic says Mythos 5 now powers Claude Security for every Enterprise customer at standard token pricing, plus a 35 million dollar fund for open-source security tools.
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OpenAI Cuts Sol API Prices, But Not for Long
OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Sol API pricing more than 20 percent through November 21, 2026, taking input tokens from $5 to $4 per million, output from $30 to $20, and cached input from $0.50 to $0.40 per million. The company frames it as a response to competition from Anthropic and Chinese vendors including DeepSeek.
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DeepSeek's Peak Pricing Exposes AI Cost Lock-In
DeepSeek moved from a flat $0.87 to a peak-hour rate near $3.96 per million output tokens on August 16, 2026, a 4.5x jump that tests how EU and UK buyers budget cheap AI.
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DeepSeek Adds Vision to V4-Flash, Nears Opus 4.8
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on August 21, 2026, an experimental multimodal model scoring 64.3 on Chartography and nearing Opus 4.8 on visual-agent tasks, raising new vendor-risk questions for European buyers.
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OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Ads to Europe on Consent
OpenAI brings ChatGPT ads to 31 European markets on August 24, 2026, asking Free and Go tier users for consent rather than relying on legitimate interest.
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Anthropic Lets Enterprises Keep Retained Data
Anthropic is building a system letting enterprise customers keep the mandatory 30-day retained data on their own cloud, after pushback from Salesforce and 100+ other customers.
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