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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, @jrkast, @davidh6, @pkafka, @jetscott, and @benedictevans
| 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: @pitdesi, @jason, @skarredghost, @nearcyan, @andrewcurran_, @nearcyan, @altryne, @lunayian, @benthompson, @ranimolla, @munster_gene, @mikeisaac, @supbagholder, @scobleizer, @munster_gene, @benbajarin, @munster_gene, and @swyx
Threads: @documentingmeta, @rpn, @szed_ar, @roccobasilico, @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.
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| 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.
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| 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, Benzinga, and Moneycontrol
| 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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X: @dalperovitch, @gergelyorosz, @geiger_capital, @kyleichan, @tphuang, @haugejostein, and @gergelyorosz. LinkedIn: Sebastian Wilke
Bluesky: @parismarx.com, @katjabego, @danielagabor, and @carlquintanilla
Forums: r/nvidia, r/LocalLLaMA, r/neoliberal, r/China, r/technews, r/hardware, r/NvidiaStock, r/wallstreetbets, and Slashdot
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
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Bluesky: @carnage4life and @quinnypig.com
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| 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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| 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, ZDNET, and Financial Times
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| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
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| 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
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
More: Engadget. X: @chknlvr8455, @chatgpt21, @thomas_voland, @vquinn, @3eyedtiger, @vquinn, @munster_gene, and @greengart. Threads: @thebrianpenny
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| 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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Forums: r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| 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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| The Verge: |
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| Eric Zeman / PCMag: |
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X: @appleinsider and @_thejasonc
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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 … | 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 …
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X: @joe_pickrell, @erictopol, @godfreychurch, and @embl
| 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
| 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
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| 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 …
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X: @davidrisher, @gerberkawasaki, @techtekedra, @dmitri_dolgov, @saswat101, @waymo, and @lyft. LinkedIn: Natalie Lung. Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| 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, Mumbrella, MediaPost, and WinBuzzer
| 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
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
StubHub's shares closed down 6.4% in its NYSE debut, giving StubHub an $8.1B market value, after the ticketing platform raised $800M in its IPO — StubHub shares dropped 6.4% in their New York Stock Exchange debut on Wednesday after the online ticket seller priced its IPO in the middle of its expected range.| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA plans to exempt cryptoasset providers from some of its finance rules, as it prepares to integrate the sector into its regulatory framework from 2026 — FCA says traditional financial rules would not be effective for the sector as it prepares to fully integrate the market
More: Financial Conduct Authority, PYMNTS.com, and Cryptonews
LinkedIn: Nicholas Webb, Alessio Anulli, and Nick Smith
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Netskope priced its IPO at $19 per share, at the top of its targeted range, valuing the company at $7.3B, and raised $908.2M in the offering — Cybersecurity company Netskope is eying a $7.3 billion valuation after pricing shares at $19 for its upcoming IPO, at the top end of its expected range.
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