Tools & Products
Anthropic launched a research preview of Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a specification enabling AI agents to safely operate physical lab and manufacturing equipment.
Anthropic launches free and discounted Claude subscriptions for scientists, expanding access to 10,000 researchers with special team plans and $50,000 credit programs.
Pollen Robotics launches Microduck, a $399 open-source biped robot that users can train with reinforcement learning via Hugging Face.
Hugging Face launched Microduck, a $399 open-source duck robot that can be trained with reinforcement learning and features cameras, lidar, and IMU sensors.
Google's AI Mode now offers flight price tracking, hotel booking, and points/miles pricing display, expanding its travel assistant capabilities globally.
Google's Gemini Notebook app now integrates with Google Play Books, allowing users to ask questions and generate content based on purchased books.
Google Search's AI Mode now offers flight price tracking, points/miles redemption views, and direct hotel booking capabilities to simplify travel planning.
NVIDIA introduces NVHBM custom high-bandwidth memory technology that delivers up to 30% more bandwidth and 15% lower power consumption for AI chips.
Hugging Face unveiled Microduck, a $399 open-source robot that can be taught new behaviors using reinforcement learning.
Nvidia launched Jetson Orin Nano 2 edge computing platform to expand physical AI applications beyond data centers.
Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics launched the Microduck robot for $399, featuring AI-powered movement, object manipulation, and unique generated voices.
Adobe is launching a new 'AI Assisted Editor' interface in Photoshop beta that consolidates AI tools into a simplified toolbar with markup-based editing.
Plaud launched AI-enabled earphones with an eSIM case for remote AI agent interaction without phone or computer.
Plaud launches AI earbuds with built-in 4G connectivity for recording, transcribing, and summarizing conversations without phone dependency.
Microsoft Paint and Photos secretly embed server-issued GUIDs as invisible watermarks in locally generated AI images, even when generation happens offline.
Lovable is expanding from AI-powered web app creation to building 'capabilities' — app functions exposed via MCP servers that agents can directly call.
Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe with automatic filler word removal, specialized jargon handling, and multilingual support across 85+ languages.
OpenAI announces successful testing of its first custom inference chip 'Jalapeño' showing major efficiency gains with faster responses, higher throughput, and lower latency without sacrificing power efficiency.
OpenAI announced its custom Jalapeño AI inference chip delivers 1.5-1.9x better performance per watt and 1.7-3.6x lower latency than Nvidia superchips in benchmark tests.
QueryStory emerged from stealth with a $6M seed round to help enterprises trust AI-generated data narratives by providing verifiable insights from complex databases.
Arga Labs raised $10M to build digital twin environments that help enterprise AI agents train on complex software like Salesforce and Workday by simulating real-world business scenarios.
Particle launched Radar, a podcast search engine that transcribes and indexes over 130,000 podcasts for AI agents to analyze audio content.
Loveholidays uses OpenAI Codex to enable non-technical teams to build software products, making development accessible across the business.
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 system delivers up to 30x higher throughput per megawatt than previous GB300 systems for AI agent workloads.
OpenAI is expanding its ChatGPT for Teachers program to 55 additional U.S. school districts, reaching over 100,000 more educators.
Towards Data Science launched a new author platform in August 2026 that includes integrated AI image generation capabilities for article images.
Keenable raised $26M in seed funding to build a web search index optimized for AI agents and their training/runtime needs.
NVIDIA announces major game publishers including EA, Ubisoft, and Embark are bringing blockbuster titles to RTX Spark with anti-cheat support and DLSS 4.5 upgrades.
EVE Online begins migrating 2.4 million lines of Stackless Python 2.7 code to Python 3 using futurize script and manual review.
Hugging Face uses Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Storage Buckets to power hybrid search on Papers with Code with PostgreSQL and pgvector.