Meta debuts $799 Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and hand gesture detection via the Meta Neural Band wristband, on sale from September 30
Meta Platforms Inc., seeking to turn its burgeoning smart glasses into a must-have product, on Wednesday unveiled its first version with a built-in screen.
A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where Meta announced Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with and without a display, new Meta Oakley glasses, Horizon updates, and more
Expect a lot of smart glasses and AI talk this year, with a dash of the metaverse and VR. — Who's excited for smart glasses?
Nvidia and Intel partner to develop multiple generations of x86 products; Nvidia will buy $5B of Intel's stock at $23.28 per share, a ~5% stake; INTC jumps 25%+
Cats and Dogs, living together! — In a surprising announcement that finds two long-time rivals working together …
Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), doubling the battery life to 8 hours and with 3K Ultra HD video capture for up to three minutes, available now for $329+
The Gen 2 glasses have up to eight hours of continuous battery on a single charge, up from four on the previous edition.
Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, which lets creators use AI prompts to make VR worlds, powered by its “built from scratch” Horizon Engine
The Horizon Engine powers ‘better graphics’ for Meta's Horizon Worlds social platform.
Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: the small display adds new functionality, real-time translation are useful, and the Neural Band seems like the ideal input method
Incredibly, @vicmsong.bsky.social calls them “the best I've ever tried.” — www.theverge.com/tech/779566/ ... @hypervisible.blacksky.app : What I've come to hate about a lot of reviews is the part at...
Meta unveils the Oakley Meta Vanguard, with a 12MP wide-angle camera, Garmin and Strava, and immersive audio, preorder now and shipping from October 21 for $499
At Meta Connect 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled its new Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses that are geared toward runners, cyclists, and other athletes.
Meta rolls out a Horizon TV hub for Quest headsets, with apps including Disney+ and ESPN, and partners with Universal and Blumhouse to let users watch 3D movies
here's what we know Rasmus Larsen / FlatpanelsHD : Meta Quest: Disney+ coming soon, Dolby Atmos & new streaming hub Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta Horizon TV is an entertainment hub for VR headsets C...
Anthropic details three infrastructure bugs that intermittently degraded Claude's responses between August and early September, and explains how it fixed them
This is a technical report on three bugs that intermittently degraded responses from Claude. Below we explain what happened …
The Irish Data Protection Commission appoints Niamh Sweeney, Facebook's former head of public policy in Ireland, as its new commissioner, starting on October 13
Niamh Sweeney to take up role in October — Former tech industry lobbyist Niamh Sweeney has been named to the Data Protection Commission …
Inside Apple's Audio Lab, where the company develops features like spatial audio and uses tuning studios as reference points for AirPods Pro and other products
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A recording of Meta Connect 2025
Join Mark Zuckerberg for the Opening Keynote of Meta Connect 2025—our annual conference where we showcase the future of human connection and the technology t...
A look at Live Translation on AirPods Pro, one of the strongest examples yet of how AI can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people's lives
here's how to use it Jibin Joseph / PCMag : Live Translation Doesn't Require AirPods Pro 3, But You Do Need This Bluesky: @almightrex : wait so we actually have universal translator/babel fish now Her...
Meta rolls out Hyperscape Capture in early access, letting developers and creators use a Quest 3 to scan a room in minutes and turn it into a VR space in hours
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OpenAI says its reasoning system solved all 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals; GPT-5 solved 11 and an experimental model solved #12 after GPT-5 couldn't
An OpenAI system has solved every problem at the world's most prestigious collegiate programming championship …
Sources: China drops its antitrust probe into Google, opened in February over Android dominance and its impact on Chinese phonemakers, amid US-China trade talks
Beijing regulator's investigation had centred Android operating system's dominance — China is dropping an antitrust probe into Google …
Google says Gemini 2.5 Deep Think achieved a gold medal performance at the 2025 ICPC World Finals programming competition, solving 10 of 12 problems
Gemini achieves gold level performance at ICPC! … Lalit Jain : It was amazing and humbling to be a core contributor to this Gold-winning ICPC effort. First the IMO, and two months later ICPC! … Blues...
Huawei unveils the Atlas 950 SuperPoD with 8,192 Ascend NPUs and the Atlas 960 SuperPoD with 15,488 Ascend NPUs, both with Huawei's new HBM, to challenge Nvidia
Huawei Technologies Co. unveiled new technology from memory chips to AI accelerators Thursday, outlining publicly …
OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in “scheming”, or secretly pursuing some other agenda, reducing “covert actions” ~30X
ZDNET's key takeaways — Several frontier AI models show signs of scheming.
The US FTC and seven states sue Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use of bots and large-scale resale operations
The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its Ticketmaster subsidiary for failing to stem the use …
Filing: Insight Partners says a ransomware attack on its systems between October 2024 and January 2025 affected 12,600+ people, including its limited partners
Venture capital firm Insight Partners has notified thousands of people, including the firm's limited partners …
CrowdStrike agrees to acquire Pangea, which protects companies from prompt injection attacks by monitoring AI's interactions with users and software, for ~$260M
Cyber vendor adds to detection and response capabilities as AI security threats are on the rise
Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country in terms of Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on the App Store and Google Play in India
Google's Nano Banana image-generation model, officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, has fueled global momentum for the Gemini app since launching last month.
ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.5B+ Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens; a source says the numbers are accurate
The ShinyHunters extortion group claims to have stolen over 1.5 billion Salesforce records from 760 companies using compromised Salesloft Drift OAuth tokens.
Survey: 50% of US adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life; 53% say AI will harm people's ability to think creatively
Americans see a role for AI in some areas of society but want more control over its use. About half say it'll erode creative thinking
Sources: Meta has held discussions with Axel Springer, Fox Corp., News Corp, and others in recent months about licensing their articles for use in its AI tools
The overtures mark a shift in the Facebook parent's relationships with news outlets and other publishers
A US House committee asks the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at an October 8 hearing on the “radicalization of online forum users”
oversight.house.gov/release/ chai... Mastodon: Jess / @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange : In normal times, I'd say this is a good thing. There are absolutely radicalizing and violent cesspools on all ...
Nothing launches Ear 3, with a Super Mic system featuring two mics activated by a Talk button on one side of the case, available from September 25 for $179
third time's a charm GSMArena.com : Nothing Ear (3) with improved design, Super Mic feature debuts Jessica Gorringe / Trusted Reviews : Nothing Ear 3 vs Nothing Ear: What's new with the earbuds? Arol ...
In a peer-reviewed Nature article update, DeepSeek says it spent $294K on training its reasoning-focused R1 model and used 512 Nvidia H800 chips for 80 hours
Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for U.S. rivals …
Scientists detail Delphi-2M, a generative AI model trained on large-scale health records that can predict susceptibility to 1,000+ diseases decades from now
meet Delphi-2M Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : New AI Predicts Over 1,000 Diseases Decades in Advance Using Health Records James Gallagher / BBC : AI can forecast your future health - just like the...
Court filings: Tesla has settled two lawsuits over deaths in two separate California crashes in 2019 involving Autopilot; the accords' terms were not disclosed
Deliveroo says that CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the £2.9B deal, announced in May, is expected to close by October 2
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StubHub's shares closed down 6.4% in its NYSE debut on September 17, giving StubHub an $8.1B market value, after the ticketing platform raised $800M in its IPO
StubHub Inc.'s initial public offering dipped 6% below its offering price … Todd Spangler / Variety : StubHub IPO Fizzles: Stock Closes Down 6.4% on First Day of Trading Bloomberg : Bloomberg Talks St...
Luma AI partners with Adobe to bring its generative video model Ray3 to Firefly's paid users; Ray3 creates highly realistic 10-second videos without dialogue
Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter :
Sources: several xAI execs left after clashing with two of Musk's closest advisers over concerns about unrealistic financial projections and xAI's management
Some who left say they were concerned about the artificial intelligence company's financial projections
Atlassian acquires developer productivity insight platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350+ enterprise customers and raised less than $5M
Welcome to Cautious Optimism, a newsletter on tech, business, and power. Supriya Roy / Times of India : Atlassian to acquire engineering intelligence firm DX in $1 bn deal Larry Dignan / Constellation...
Netskope priced its IPO at $19 per share, at the top end of its expected range, valuing the cybersecurity company at $7.3B, and raised $908.2M in the offering
Samantha Subin / CNBC :
Q&A with CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela on Runway's “world models” breakthrough, how it differs from typical AI video generation, the Lionsgate partnership, and more
Co-founder of the first AI platform to partner with a Hollywood studio on video generation talks …
Sources: Indian digital payments company Pine Labs aims to raise as much as $700M from an IPO in the second half of October, down from its $1B target earlier
Bloomberg :
Google partners with StopNCII.org and says it will start using its hashes to proactively identify nonconsensual images in search results and remove them
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge :
A US district judge rules that Amazon violated consumer law by collecting Prime subscribers' billing info before disclosing terms, handing the FTC a partial win
Shein launches Xcelerator, a service granting other fashion brands access to its fast-fashion manufacturing network in China, as it seeks new revenue streams
Bloomberg :
Upscale AI, which is building a suite of open standards-based networking tools for AI infrastructure, raised a $100M+ seed led by Mayfield and Maverick Silicon
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Source: SoftBank's plans for a joint venture with OpenAI to bring AI to Japanese corporate customers are behind schedule; a progress update is set for November
Yusuke Ogawa / Reuters :
Activist investor Elliott announces it took a $2B stake in Workday and says the company's new multiyear plan will drive “substantial long-term value creation”
Ashley Capoot / CNBC :
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