It's almost friday, and we're live monitoring some great stories this morning: - HuggingFace's Microduck robot - Barret Zoph joins Google - Meta and Anthropic's proposed $10 billion spend - Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash After 10am, we're bringing on some excellent guests to cover the news and some big announcements: - @vsiv founder and ceo of Emerald AI to talk about the company's Series A, what they're building, and how things are shaping up on the AI & energy demand side - @pablorpalafox co-founder and ceo of @HappyRobot to talk more about their recent Series C funding & why working on agents is so exciting right now - @sayashk incoming assistant prof @UCBerkeley to talk more about his research on agents and whether they are capable of open-ended research - @FakePsyho independent research & eval extraordinaire will talk us through why benchmarks can be so difficult to analyze & how harnesses are more regularly affecting the performance of models on industry benchmarks - @tonysphere & @madelineminshew partners @trueventures to talk about the upcoming connected stack conference - @jenzhuscott co-founder and ceo of Power Dynamics to share her thoughts on the potential Nvidia x HuggingFace deal, as well as why the GLM-5.3-Flash release is such a huge moment for the industry - @edunov CTO of Genesis Molecular AI to talk about various innovations in the design space of LLMs, as well as why AI x Bio is so exciting right now - @styskin ceo and co-founder @KeenableAI to talk us through the latest release of NEEDLE, the benchmark your search engine can't memorize