Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors
Techmeme
September 18, 2025, 12:20 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
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 …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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.
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
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?
Jay Peters / The Verge:
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.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
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 on YouTube:
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...
Ben Lang / Road to VR:
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
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
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  —  Inside Apple Audio Labs  —  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Peter Flanagan / The Irish Times:
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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
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.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
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
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
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
Anthropic:
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 …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
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.
More: Wired and NDTV Profit
Bloomberg:
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
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
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET:
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.
Pew Research Center:
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
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
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 …

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning  —  SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds.  Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics  —  Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards.  Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Simplifying benefits management in Zoho People  —  Let's consider a new hire on their first day of orientation.  They receive a brief introduction to the benefits plans, and almost immediately, questions start to surface …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data  —  Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Uncapped with Jack Altman:
 Sam Blond from Monaco
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Training Data:
 Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Invest Like the Best:
 John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Grit:
 The Sales Framework Every Founder Needs | Mark Roberge
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
 How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
 Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:20 PM ET, September 18, 2025.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

From Mediagazer

Naman Ramachandran / Variety:
BBC DG Matt Brittin says the BBC and UK public service broadcasting face “real jeopardy” as license fee erosion drives BBC's third consecutive annual deficit

Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
Letter: Tennessee Deputy Governor Stuart McWhorter urged David Ellison to move Paramount's corporate headquarters from California to Tennessee

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Trump's recent comment on a “normal path” for CNN raised eyebrows amid the Paramount-WBD merger; Paramount would need CNN revenue to help pay off $80B in debt

More News

Steven Zeitchik / The Hollywood Reporter:
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
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
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
Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters:
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

Earlier Picks

Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder:
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
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
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
Clive Cookson / Financial Times:
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
David Shepardson / Reuters:
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”
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter