Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics

Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR and a grasping beak. Playable out of the box, and its open-source stack lets you train new behaviours in simulation and run them on the robot. Pre-order at $399.

Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion

Nvidia has held talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion as the chip giant expands its AI dealmaking.

The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.

GreyhavenHQ/reflector

100% local ML models for meeting transcription and analysis

Reflector: Infrastructure for Meetings, by Greyhaven

Most organizations run on meetings. Strategy gets debated there. Decisions get made there. Context lives there. And yet...

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Monadical is a full-stack software development consultancy. We specialize in full-stack web development and custom software solutions.

tailscale/tailcat

like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane

Z-Space Local AI

ZAI is the Z-Space Local AI project, exploring hardware and software systems at the community level.

Better, Together - Graze Newsletter

An announcement from Graze

Radial (@radl.app)

Collaborative coding-agent orchestrator for the Atmosphere by @disnetdev.com - https://radl.app - https://tangled.org/disnetdev.com/radial

EXO Labs reveals that they have been working with Apple for the past year on low-latency RDMA networking over TB5 which allows a cluster of 4 x M5 Ultra Mac Studios to scale to an aggregate memory bandwidth of 4.8TB/s

The Potential of M6 and M5 Ultra for Local AI on macOS

Earlier today, Apple unveiled the new generation of Mac mini and Mac Studio, featuring the latest entries in the Apple silicon family of chips: the M6, available in the Mac mini, and the M5 Ultra, exclusive to the Mac Studio. You can read more details about the announcement and related specs in John’s overview. As

Perplexity on Twitter / X

New research: Portable Computer is a local-first agent for private and cost-effective work.With an on-device 27B model, our harness scores 82.6% on real knowledge work, beating open-source harnesses Pi and Hermes. Our post-trained PPLX 27B reaches 85.4%. pic.twitter.com/Rb6d47clCI— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) August 25, 2026

ChatGPT on Twitter / X

ChatGPT Work can now use its computer and browser to sign in to websites on web and mobile, without ChatGPT ever seeing your username or password.That means you can ask it to:• Set up utilities for a new apartment• Book a DMV or passport appointment• Check reimbursement…— ChatGPT (@ChatGPT) August 25, 2026

themartiano/try-omarchy

Try Omarchy on Apple Silicon without any setup.

Eduardo on Twitter / X

I built a version of Omarchy that runs on your MacBook.I wanted to try out Omarchy before doing a full install, but I only have an M series MacBook so I would have to find a laptop etc.So I decided to create something that allows people to test and run Omarchy on their… pic.twitter.com/VVEsBT9rEb— Eduardo (@martiano) August 25, 2026

OpenAI Developers on Twitter / X

We’re adding support for WebMCP in the ChatGPT desktop app’s built-in browser and ChatGPT Sites.When you visit a compatible website, ChatGPT or Codex can automatically use it to complete your task.Update to the latest version of the ChatGPT desktop app, then just ask Codex to… pic.twitter.com/XCGXUTRotN— OpenAI Developers (@OpenAIDevs) August 25, 2026

Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference

Jalapeño is a custom inference chip from OpenAI that delivers faster, more power-efficient AI inference, with higher throughput and lower latency for modern models.