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Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell | TechCrunch
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The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
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Daytona is building a cloud for agents that's like giving every agent its own computer. It has attracted founders of Stripe, Perplextity, Datadog, Mercor, and others as angels, it says.
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Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
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This is the kind of security issue that was found and prevented by AI, but is also a high risk because of AI.
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Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
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Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.
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While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them.
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From TechCrunch: General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z
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From TechCrunch: Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting
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From TechCrunch: Cerebras raises $5.5B, kicking off 2026’s IPO season with a bang