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The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/hearing-tech-startup-legato-launches-its-ai-hearing-glasses/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Use.ai combines more than ten artificial-intelligence models in a single application and has reached one million monthly users.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/use-ai-1-million-monthly-active-users
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DeepSeek has open-sourced programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips, including a version of TileLang as a simpler alternative to Nvidia's CUDA.
Source: The Next Web
https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-huawei-ascend-tilelang-open-source-cuda
#AI #DeepSeek #Huawei

Audible is rolling out new features that help listeners keep track of characters, explore places and imagery mentioned in books, and even interact with characters using generative AI. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/audibles-new-features-let-you-explore-book-worlds-and-even-talk-to-characters/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The new Kindle lineup features its lightest and thinnest designs yet, with a sleek, front-flush display that eliminates bezels for good. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/the-new-kindle-ditches-the-bezel-in-a-push-toward-a-smaller-lighter-e-reader/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The compact Bluetooth remote is designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/amazon-introduces-kindle-click-a-35-remote-for-hands-free-reading/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Trump and several AI chief executives have signed a voluntary AI safety pact while also supporting expansion of data centres.
Source: TechEconomy Nigeria
https://techeconomy.ng/trump-ai-ceos-sign-voluntary-ai-safety-pact-back-data-centre-expansion
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Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach. https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/satlyt-founded-by-a-former-google-and-spacex-product-manager-raises-8m-to-run-ai-on-satellites/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Tech billionaire Elon Musk will return to officially advising US President Donald Trump's government by co-leading a Pentagon study on the future of war called Project Meridian.
Source: Vanguard
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/10/elon-musk-returns-to-us-govt-for-pentagon-war-study/
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Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon with restricted initial access.
Source: Business Today
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/photo/gemini-4-argon-is-built-for-longer-work-tasks-googles-announced-features-api-prices-and-access-limits-559087-2026-10-01?utm_source=rssfeed
#AI #Gemini #Google

MongoDB announced the launch of Atlas Infinite for AI-Scale Demand and MongoDB 9.0. Atlas Infinite is a new deployment option within Atlas built for extreme elasticity.
Source: iTWire
https://itwire.com/guest-articles/company-news/mongodb-launches-atlas-infinite-for-ai-scale-demand-and-mongodb-9-0-the-best-version-ever-built
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OpenAI has accused Moonshot AI of using adversarial distillation to extract internal AI reasoning for training its Kimi model.
Source: Business Today
https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/artificial-intelligence/story/chatgpt-copied-to-train-kimi-ai-openai-makes-serious-allegations-against-chinas-moonshot-ai-559096-2026-10-01?utm_source=rssfeed
#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI

Researchers created LACE, a framework that uses large language models to design optimization algorithms.
Source: Nature Machine Intelligence
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01307-8
#MachineLearning

Biomedical discovery now faces a bottleneck in integrating and interpreting evidence rather than gathering data.
Source: Nature Machine Intelligence
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01313-w
#MachineLearning

Mark Zuckerberg was a driving force behind the pact Donald Trump signed with artificial intelligence industry leaders. His political clout can rival that of other tech titans.
Source: Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/01/2026/meta-chief-executive-mark-zuckerberg-shaped-ai-pact-with-us-president-trump
#TechPolicy #Meta

When prompted, AI chatbots edited images to remove hijabs from Muslim women.
Source: The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/01/ai-chatbots-hijabs-muslim-women
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Researchers introduce Alignment Forecasting to predict alignment failures before training.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35805
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LLM agents can make unsafe tool calls even when instructed to behave safely.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.35807
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Mnemon uses raw, dated records and divides memory into fast System 1 and slow System 2 work. It scores 91.7% on LoCoMo and 83.8% on LongMemEval-S using gpt-4.1-mini.
Source: arXiv cs.CL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36059
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LAUNCHub Ventures announced the first close of Fund III, securing €65 million with a target of over €75 million.
Source: EU-Startups
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/sofia-based-launchub-ventures-secures-e65-million-first-close-of-fund-iii-targets-e75-million/
#Startups