It’s taken about two years, and a showcase at last year’s CES, but Augmental’s MouthPad has launched. MouthPad is an innovative wireless Bluetooth mouse controlled entirely by the user’s tongue and head movements, enabling a degree of hands-free control that would normally require an implant. MouthPad isn’t exactly cheap at $1,400 USD and

Industry leading tech companies have formed an “Open Secure AI Alliance” that will build open-source models, agent harnesses, and cybersecurity tools, arguing that defenders need locally controlled AI after closed-model safeguards reportedly obstructed analysis of the OpenAI–Hugging Face breach.