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Robotics

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

Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and...

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AI

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition | TechCrunch

Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source...

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AI

OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach | TechCrunch

OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how...

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AI

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets | TechCrunch

Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of...

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AI

Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion | TechCrunch

After weeks of swirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging...

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AI

OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems | TechCrunch

OpenAI shared new details on its forthcoming Astra model, which the company said is the first large language...

AI

Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it? | TechCrunch

Loading the player…AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like...

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AI

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them | TechCrunch

OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took...

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AI

Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire | TechCrunch

Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging...

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In Brief

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack | TechCrunch

After OpenAI recently admitted that one of its models had breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face,...