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Meta rules out a day-one Watermelon launch at ConnectThe statement narrows expectations for Meta Connect without providing a release date, pricing, distribution plan or independent performance evidence. Meta continues to position Watermelon as a major future model after the Muse Spark line.→Google DeepMind details satellite models for Indian agricultureIn an interview reported by The Indian Express, Google DeepMind agriculture lead Alok Talekar described two satellite-based models in the AnthroKrishi team. One maps fields, trees and water from roughly 15 years of imagery, while another tracks sowing and harvesting across 12 crops, with data refreshes ranging from six to 12 months and twice monthly.→NVIDIA reportedly nears $12.9 billion Hugging Face acquisitionThe Information reported that NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, while another report said the talks were not signed and could still collapse. Neither company confirmed the transaction to TechCrunch.→Synthefy launches structured-data foundation models with a $6.5 million seed roundSynthefy said its Structured Data Foundation Models are designed for numbers, tables, transactions and signals rather than language, and announced the 30-million-parameter Nori-30M model. The company reported that Nori-30M-thinking surpassed a larger Google TabFM model on public regression benchmarks and that Wing Venture Capital led a $6.5 million seed round.→