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One Video Teaches Robots 10-Minute Tasks: Skild AI Releases S1 Foundation Model, Breaking the Robot Training Paradigm

Skild AI has released the S1 robot foundation model, which learns multi-step physical tasks of up to 10 minutes from a single human demonstration video—without fine-tuning or post-training—achieving a 66% success rate on unseen tasks versus 9% for language-prompted VLA models. The approach treats video demonstrations as programs, leveraging trillion-scale simulation pretraining for in-the-wild generalization.

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AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

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A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young

I knew I’d officially become a ‘longevity influencer’ this month when a company called Generation Lab reached out to offer me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment, an injectable combination of two existing drugs which they call 1-Generation. This wasn’t just any antiaging treatment, either. A company fact sheet says that it…

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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to OpenAI, is now at Google

Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.

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Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

Claude Opus 4.7 Tops at 93.54 Points: 2026-08-28 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief

On 2026-08-28, the YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first at 93.54 points. Single-day scores should be treated as monitoring signals given the small sample size, and notable fluctuations among mid-tier models warrant cautious interpretation.

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OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent

Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put to sleep.”

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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI

Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.

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This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

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A Georgia Cop Used Flock to Track 2 Other Cops: His Ex and Her Friend

After an affair with a fellow police officer ended, a Georgia cop used Flock to track her movements—and those of a man whose vehicle often showed up near hers, internal investigation records show.

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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. That's the failure mode that should keep you up at night: a windy, complicated system nobody can see clearly enough to govern. But wh

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AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.

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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.

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Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more

The updates indicate that Google is looking position to AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it's moving beyond simply helping users find information to actually handling parts of the trip-planning and booking process itself.

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Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Plaud's new 'agentic' earbuds are priced at $249.

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How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.

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Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

227 install commands were found in corporate docs pointing at code nobody owns.

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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.

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When agents act on their own, governance has to live in the data layer

Presented by EDB As enterprises give AI agents more autonomy — the ability to plan, decide, and act across systems without a human approving each step — a hard question moves to the center of every architecture review: When an agent tries to complete an action that it was never authorized to do, what actually stops it?These are your agents, running on your models, touching your data in your infrastructure — and the responsibility for what they do sits with you. That responsibility can’t be met i

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The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes on the US

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to communicate with…