Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town
Coates said in a LinkedIn post that the company is not trying to recreate Twitter.
Month: August 2026
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.
Enterprise AI's real risk isn't autonomous agents. It's the complexity between them.
Presented by Gravitee Agent complexity is the insidious shadow lurking inside enterprises right now that needs a light shone on it.That’s because enterprises don't deploy a single agent and watch it run, they deploy fleets, each one calling APIs, calling other agents, reaching into applications that were never built with a machine decision-maker in mind.…
Varonis vs Cyera vs BigID: DSPM Tools Compared [2026]
Enterprises spun up more cloud storage, more SaaS apps, and more AI pipelines in the past two years than in the previous decade combined — and almost none of it got classified before it landed there. That’s the gap Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) tools are built to close, and by August 2026 the category…
Cisco Gave All 90,000 Employees Their Own AI Agent
The tech company granted access to a personal agent for all global employees this week.
As Xbox and PlayStation look towards a world beyond physical media, some PC gamers have started making their own discs
As Xbox announces its disc-to-digital program beginning soon, it looks like some PC gamers are going in the opposite direction.
Plaud is launching AI earbuds
Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that’s designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its standalone charging case, and the case includes built-in 4G to upload and process…
Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck
Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It’s available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot “before Christmas 2026.” Video demos of the…
OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed…