Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cybersecurity variant limited to governments
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Wonderful raises $550M Series C at $5B valuation, led by Insight Partners with Salesforce
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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
BUSINESS
Microsoft finally puts a dollar figure on Azure, and narrows what Azure means
The company is cutting its reporting segments from three to two and stripping GitHub, developer cloud, Security Copilot and healthcare products out of Azure, leaving what Satya Nadella calls a purely consumption-based infrastructure business, which is close to the perimeter the Digital Markets Act would cover