Monday, 9 November 2026 Colourful tech headlines from across the web

Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics Control, Simulation, and Policy Improvement

By Daniel Dominguez · InfoQ · Monday, 9 November 2026 at 15:44 (3h ago) · Original article ↗

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon framing it as a general-purpose physical-reasoning model for robot control, Real2Sim scene construction, multimodal labeling of robot video, and iterative policy improvement, rather than as a single end-effector policy.

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Jensen Huang’s affair with alleged Chinese spy puts Nvidia’s China ambitions under scrutiny

Jensen Huang’s alleged affair with a suspected Chinese spy threatens to complicate Nvidia’s lobbying efforts to loosen U.S. chip export restrictions and maintain access to China’s lucrative AI market.

TechCrunch 51m ago

Instagram’s Effect Builder makes new filters from AI prompts

After expanding its Edits app to macOS last week, Instagram's next move is launching this Effect Builder that generates custom filters for your Stories posts with AI. Available now for US residents who are over 18, it has a prompt box for describing your filter idea to the…

The Verge 54m ago

Meta releases Muse Ember, a new lightweight model for agent execution

At 10 cents per million input tokens, Ember is significantly cheaper than frontier competitors like Haiku and Luna.

TechCrunch 1h ago

Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics Control, Simulation, and Policy Improvement

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