Hugging Face launches $399 open source duck robot Microduck
Hugging Face has unveiled Microduck, a 25-centimetre open source duck robot priced at $399 that can walk, recover from falls and even roller-skate, aimed at introducing children and adults to robotics and AI.
Alibaba launches a new Qoder, an AI agent workbench built for everyone
On August 27, Alibaba unveiled a revamped Qoder, turning its coding-focused AI tool into an agent workbench for anyone: describe a goal in natural language and the system handles development, prototyping and data processing on its own.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, filtering out filler words
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is Google's new speech-to-text model: it detects over 85 languages, cleans up self-corrections and filler words in real time, and reaches a 2.6% word error rate on recorded audio, according to DeepMind.
Firefox's Smart Window AI mode adds live web search
Mozilla's Smart Window beta now pulls live web results with source links via Exa, suggests tab groups, and finds old pages by describing what was on them.
Lovable raises $400M from Tencent, valuation hits $13.3B
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable has closed a $400 million round backed by Tencent, pushing its valuation to $13.3 billion. Apps built on the platform now draw more than 900 million visits a month.
Kitesurf: Cloudflare's Chromium-free browser built for AI agents
No tabs, no theme, no extensions. Cloudflare has released a beta of Kitesurf, an ultra-light headless browser designed to be driven by AI agents. Written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly and run on Workers, it is said to be 3 to 7 times more efficient than Chromium in CPU and memory. Giving every agent its own Chromium instance had become too expensive.
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