HTC rolls out its $499 Vive Eagle, which let users choose between Gemini or ChatGPT as their assistant, in North America, Europe, the UK, and Australia (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, its second-largest deal after a $20 billion purchase of Groq assets last year. Meta launched Muse Spark 1.3, claiming notable gains in coding and agentic tasks and announcing forthcoming open-weight releases. At the G20 summit, all member nations endorsed the non-binding Carolina Principles, a U.S.-proposed framework for lighter regulation of emerging technologies.