Nvidia's chief executive was seen playing with Microduck robots, small machines that sit, play dead and somersault on voice command. According to the headline, 20,000 have been sold.
Simon Willison asked Claude Opus 5.5 to build a web tool that repaints a photo in a few seconds with a simulated paintbrush on a canvas element. The result, Quick Study, relies on Sobel edge detection and no external libraries.
Google Research describes work on applying foundation models to screening for tuberculosis.
OpenAI explains how it scaled Habitat, its storage system for ChatGPT, with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching and Azure Cosmos DB. The company says reads became 12 times faster.
Vercel Connect can now create a separate, restricted Stripe API key for each agent or task, limited to the permissions the user selects. The aim is to stop agents from running on Stripe's default key, which grants full access to an account.
An update to Google's privacy policy adds an exception to its pledge not to use Drive, Gmail or Google Photos content for personalised ads. People who use its personalised AI features could therefore see ads based on their personal data.