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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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?
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| 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.
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Ray-Ban Display glasses are Zuckerberg's latest bid to reframe Meta, focusing on “personal superintelligence”, but they face technical and societal challenges — They're trying to back AI and Smart Glasses into the ‘Metaverse’... Live tech demos are a bitch.| Meta on YouTube: |
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| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
| 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.| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
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 — The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people's lives.| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
Google is rolling out a Gemini button in Chrome for all desktop users in the US browsing in English, and other AI features, including AI Mode in the address bar — Google weaving Gemini further into the popular Chrome browser is an inflection point for AI in our software, although some users will still be looking for the “off” switch.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
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 … | 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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Atlassian acquires developer productivity insight platform DX for $1B in cash and restricted stock; DX has 350+ enterprise customers and raised less than $5M — Productivity software giant Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet to add a developer productivity tool to its product suite.| 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 … | Financial Times: |
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 … | 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
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: CrowdStrike, TechRadar, Forbes, SecurityWeek, Forbes, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Oliver Friedrichs
| 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.
More: UploadVR, XR Today, Road to VR, GamesBeat, Android Central, Tom's Guide, and UploadVR
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| 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
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| 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 … | Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
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.| 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.
More: OpenAI, Time, The Decoder, Apollo Research, and Datamation
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