Justice Department sides with OpenAI in publishers’ copyright fight
Artificial Intelligence
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments
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ROBOTS
Hugging Face is selling a $399 robot duck with open-source software
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has put its $399 Microduck up for preorder, a 25cm robot duck that walks, roller skates and picks up socks. The software stack is open source. The hardware is not, and it cannot lift much more than 100 grams. Nvidia is reportedly buying the parent.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Wonderful raises $550M Series C at $5B valuation, led by Insight Partners with Salesforce
Insight Partners led the round with Salesforce joining, the valuation has more than doubled since March, and the company's central pitch, that enterprises should not be locked into one provider, is becoming European law rather than a feature
DATA AND SECURITY
OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability
The company told Greg Casar and Doris Matsui it is working toward fully autonomous shutdown procedures and declined to hand over the logs from July's breach, while AI Act Article 93 already lets the Commission require a general-purpose model to be restricted, withdrawn or recalled from the Union market