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Legato has begun selling AI hearing glasses for adults with up to moderate hearing loss, starting at $999. The frames amplify voices over background noise through open-ear speakers, process audio on the device and contain no cameras or recording, according to the company.
Satlyt raises an $8M seed to run AI software across others’ satellites — Gemma already cut error-downlink size 60%+ on a Momentus craft — as a SpaceX rideshare lofted more demos.
NVIDIA engineers cut Najdi/Hijazi ASR word error from 55% to ~30% by fine-tuning Nemotron 3.5 — without tanking other Arabic dialects or English.
TechCrunch: Alphabet launches Gemini 4 Argon for coding, research, and writing — with cyber defense as the lead pitch and Fairwind partners getting first access.
NVIDIA’s recsys-examples path serves Hierarchical Sequential Transduction Unit ranking models via Dynamo-Triton — up to ~4.5x speedups on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell in cited tests.
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon with frontier claims in software engineering, legal and finance work and cyber defense, but is limiting first access to trusted cyber defenders. The Verge reports Google is participating in the U.S. government's voluntary pre-release access process and plans stronger safeguards before a wider rollout.
WIRED reports executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI and Nvidia signed "The White House Accord on Super Intelligence" after a luncheon with President Trump. The statement urges internal controls, empowered safety teams, an external monitor and board reporting, but it is voluntary rather than binding.
Ars Technica reports Google skipped a long-promised Gemini 3.5 Pro and jumped to Gemini 4 Argon, listing introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output and raising the output limit to 1 million tokens from 64,000. Access is limited to Fairwind partners such as Wiz for now.
In its announcement, Google DeepMind presents Gemini 4 Argon as a frontier model for long-horizon software engineering, enterprise knowledge work and cyber defense. It is rolling out first through the Fairwind Program as Google engages the U.S. voluntary pre-release access process, with pricing published up front.
WIRED hands-on: OpenAI’s Dots — Pro-only, Astra-powered, cute and proactive — land in a market Meta’s free Muse already primed, with Altman eyeing a future mass-market wave.
cuObject client/server libraries hit GA for RDMA object storage, SCADA Server SDK lands for GPU-initiated I/O, and xio-sig courts Google Cloud and Microsoft for interoperability.
TechCrunch: OpenAI’s Decisions API — a fast constrained-choice model akin to TypeSafe’s Jev — could cheapen the watcher models meant to police misbehaving agents.