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OpenAI says ChatGPT Slides is rolling out to eligible Pro, Business and Enterprise users with Space access, on web and desktop. It can build presentations that teams edit in real time, though on Windows 10 the desktop app delivers a PowerPoint file instead.

Valve has reintroduced Android binder IPC support in the SteamOS 3.9.3 beta kernel. Owners say the option is needed for Waydroid to run on a Steam Deck without unlocking the filesystem, and its removal was reported three weeks ago.

The studio Another Axiom updated Gorilla Tag's OG Maps and Rotating Maps to support 20-player rooms. The update also provided map makers with a Dev Terminal.

Valve's newest Linux runtime prevents some .NET games from starting due to the removal of libicu. A future release of Steam Linux Runtime 4 is committed to including libicu, but no specific version, build, or date has been provided.

An unofficial project called Spare io claims its iPhone app can write new firmware to RayNeo's iO glasses via the existing Bluetooth link, without needing a vendor app or account. The project page warns that flashing modified firmware could potentially brick the glasses.

Kluge Interactive added Apashe's track "Lord & Master" to Synth Riders at no cost as part of its annual Spooky Update. The update notes also mention a disagreement regarding Neon Bloom.

Rokid has opened a glasses shop in Hong Kong that operates without staff. The first 500 customers who purchase Rokid Glasses at this location will receive a gift pack valued by the company at HK$4,688, or approximately $600.

Sandisk announced that it will be the exclusive provider of flash storage for Meta VR Glasses when they go on sale in spring 2027. The announcement mentioned two product categories—microSD Express memory cards and USB-C flash drives—but provided no model names, capacity, or price.

The Rustmourne Team announced that their free VR horror demo is now live on Steam, arriving four days before Steam Next Fest opens. The demo listing also includes a brand-new trailer.

The Dutch consumer group, Consumentenbond, has taken legal action regarding the cameras in Meta's Ray-Ban Meta glasses. They are asking the court to ban the sales of these glasses in the Netherlands if Meta states they cannot comply with privacy law.

Amazon is selling its always-listening AI wearable, the Bee Frontier, for $74.99 at Amazon.com, with the Bee Pro subscription above it costing $11.99 a month. Amazon says the device is available now in Onyx, Lavender and Sage and carries an IP67 water resistance rating.

Google reports that Gemini 4 Argon reduced its pick-and-place time from 58.9 seconds to 17.4 seconds. This improvement was achieved across three attempts on a 6-DoF robot arm, with the system analyzing its own logs and camera footage.

Linux users report that games freeze permanently within seconds of an alt-tab, and that switching off Steam's in-game overlay stops the problem. Valve has merged four reports into two issues on its own trackers, issue 13709 and issue 13682, and has posted triage but no diagnosis in either.

Apple ran Meta's Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter model with 42 billion parameters active at a time, across four Mac Studios and measured more than 36 tokens per second. Apple's machine learning researchers said the model "cannot fit on a single machine", with figures based on four M5 Ultra machines splitting it by width; the context is truncated.

Meta says its AI glasses can now recognise eight artworks inside Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera and play the museum's own spoken description of each one through the frames. The pilot, called "Sensing Art", is a tour a visitor books rather than a demo on a stage.

Valve closed a Linux bug report stating that the current point release of ALVR is not supportable on SteamVR's side. The release in question is ALVR v20.14.1, which is 15 months old.

Valve stated that the Linux Steam client is now a 64-bit application running inside a Steam Runtime container. However, a requirements document added by a Valve engineer later specified that '64-bit-only x86_64 systems are not supported.'