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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta unveils Meta Ray-Ban Display, with a screen in the right lens and the Meta Neural Band, a wristband that detects hand gestures, on sale Sept. 30 for $799 — 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.
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Threads: @jasteinerman, @carnage4life, @szed_ar, @documentingmeta, @chriscox, @roccobasilico, @jrkast, @davidh6, @benedictevans, @pkafka, and @jetscott. Forums: r/RaybanMeta
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
A live blog of Meta Connect 2025, where Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with a display, new Meta Oakley glasses, Horizon updates, and more were announced — 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?
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X: @munster_gene, @pitdesi, @jason, @skarredghost, @nearcyan, @andrewcurran_, @nearcyan, @altryne, @altryne, @lunayian, @swyx, @ranimolla, @munster_gene, @munster_gene, @benbajarin, @mikeisaac, @scobleizer, @benthompson, @munster_gene, and @supbagholder
Threads: @wongmjane, @documentingmeta, @rpn, @szed_ar, @crumbler, @crumbler, @crumbler, and @crumbler
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta announces the Oakley Meta Vanguard, with a 12MP wide-angle camera, Garmin and Strava integrations, and immersive audio, launching on 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.
More: Daily Mail, Reuters, Engadget, UploadVR, CNET, GamesBeat, Road to VR, The Verge, The Economic Times, Wired, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, Android Central, Wired, and Tom's Guide
X: @benz145 and @benbajarin
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2), with extended 8-hour battery life and 3K Ultra HD video capture for up to three minutes, available today starting at $329 — The Gen 2 glasses have up to eight hours of continuous battery on a single charge, up from four on the previous edition.
More: UploadVR, Android Police, Meta, 9to5Google, Engadget, CNET, GamesBeat, PhoneArena, Meta, Android Central, TechRadar, MobileSyrup, and Android Central
X: @munster_gene and @boss_angeles
| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Hands-on with Meta Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band: small display adds new functionality, useful real-time translation, Neural Band seems the ideal input method — The newly announced Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, and the ‘Neural Band’ input device that comes with them, are still far from proper augmented reality.| 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...
More: ZDNET, Road to VR, and Benzinga
| 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” — A U.S. House committee on Wednesday asked the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Amazon-owned Twitch (AMZN.O) and Reddit (RDDT.N) …
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X: @kahliefadams, @slasher, @taylorlorenz, @gopoversight, @repluna, @repbrandongill, @mattbinder, @repjamescomer, @hasanthehun, @nornqueenkya, and @rivalxfactor. Bluesky: @acvalens.net
Forums: r/valve, r/QuebecLibre, r/DeepStateCentrism, r/redditstock, r/BannedFromDiscord, r/politics, r/Libertarian, r/centrist, and r/Games
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
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 — Like the rest of its Big Tech cadre, Google has spent lavishly on developing generative AI models. Google's AI can clean up your text messages …
More: Google DeepMind, Implicator.ai, ZDNET, Financial Times, and The Decoder
X: @hengtze, @rseroter, @daniel_mac8, @googledeepmind, @deredleritt3r, @mirrokni, @tokenbender, @_philschmid, @ymatias, @kimmonismus, @sundarpichai, and @jeffdean
Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
More: Venturebeat, SiliconANGLE, and TipRanks Financial
X: @emollick, @mostafarohani, @openai, @openai, @kimmonismus, @openai, @bminaiev, and @gdb
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta upgrades Horizon Worlds with Meta Horizon Studio, letting creators use AI prompts to build worlds, powered by its new “built from scratch” virtual engine — The Horizon Engine powers ‘better graphics’ for Meta's Horizon Worlds social platform.
More: Road to VR, GamesBeat, Android Central, and Tom's Guide
X: @munster_gene, @lunayian, @vquinn, @nearcyan, and @chatgpt21
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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X: @chknlvr8455, @chatgpt21, @greengart, @3eyedtiger, @munster_gene, @thomas_voland, @vquinn, and @vquinn. Threads: @thebrianpenny
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China told ByteDance, Alibaba, and others to stop testing and ordering Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, going beyond earlier guidance focused on Nvidia's H20 — Beijing steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence to compete with the US — China's internet regulator has banned …
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts — Google announced on Wednesday that it's updating the Discover page in its flagship Search app to allow you to follow specific publishers … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone Air review: light, easier to carry, and more pleasant to use for longer, but no ultrawide camera and the battery drains quicker than a standard phone's — The iPhone Air is as much a statement as it is a phone. It says something about the person using it: that they don't mind giving …
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Forums: r/apple, r/gadgets, r/mkbhd, and MacRumors Forums
| The Verge: |
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X: @cartidise, @universeice, @lafaiel, @raywongy, @techinfosocials, @independent, @wsj, @techinfosocials, and @mydaebakcafe. Threads: @nic.ngu. Forums: r/iphone
| Eric Zeman / PCMag: |
More: The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, Cult of Mac, iJustine on YouTube, and Marques Brownlee on YouTube
X: @_thejasonc and @appleinsider
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: an OLED MacBook Pro with a touchscreen is set to enter mass production by late 2026; a MacBook with an iPhone chip will enter mass production in Q4 2025 — Apple's first OLED MacBook Pro, set to enter mass production next year, will feature a touch screen display, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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X: @mingchikuo, @mingchikuo, @samifathi_, @patrickmoorhead, @stevesi, @daaniyaan, @mohammedali1508, @leakerapple, @joannastern, @rsgnl, @stevesi, @subhaminion, @markgurman, @tomwarren, and @neuralaa. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski. Threads: @tomwarrenuk
Forums: r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: CNN
| 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 — European scientists have created system trained on large-scale health records — European scientists have developed …
More: Nature, BBC, The Guardian, Sky News, Ground Truths, Nature, EMBL, Tech Xplore, Nature, Nature Podcast on YouTube, and El País
X: @joe_pickrell, @erictopol, @godfreychurch, and @embl
| Reuters: |
Court filings: Tesla has settled two lawsuits over deaths in two separate California crashes in 2019 involving Autopilot; the accords' terms were not disclosed — - Settlements follow separate $243 million verdict against Tesla in August — Trials for both cases were scheduled to start next month
More: Electrek, The Verge, Business Insider, TheStreet, Jalopnik, Breitbart, FreightWaves, The Information, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Automotive World
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Lyft partners with Waymo to launch robotaxis in Nashville starting in 2026, their first collaboration; Waymo started Nashville tests in March; LYFT jumps 13.13% — Lyft Inc. is partnering with Waymo for the first time to offer robotaxi service in Nashville starting next year …
More: Waymo, Engadget, CNET, Nashville Business Journal, Benzinga, TechCrunch, and CNBC
X: @davidrisher, @saswat101, @gerberkawasaki, @waymo, @techtekedra, @lyft, and @dmitri_dolgov. LinkedIn: Natalie Lung. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| 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
More: CBS News, Tech Xplore, and The Verge
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
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 — Artificial intelligence is putting existing networks under immense strain, and they have emerged as one of the major constraints … | Reuters: |
A US district judge rules Amazon violated consumer law by collecting Prime subscribers' billing info before disclosing terms, handing the FTC a partial win — Amazon (AMZN.O) violated consumer protection law by gathering Prime subscribers' billing information before disclosing the service's terms … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen the integration of its content into Google's AI products; they signed a $60M data-sharing deal in 2024 — - Moving past a dollars-for-data model, Reddit seeks new deals — The social platform looks to bring new users into its forums
More: Search Engine Land, Social Media Today, DigiTimes, and Benzinga
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon debuts a chatbot-style assistant to help advertisers use AI to make ads, which can run across Amazon's ad inventory and platforms that have Amazon deals — The biggest names in tech are racing to make advertising easier, especially for small businesses and consumer goods companies
More: About Amazon, CNBC, Amazon Ads, Tech.co, Modern Retail, MediaPost, and Search Engine Land
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