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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.
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.
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
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 …
Lance Ulanoff / TechRadar:
Inside Apple's Audio Labs, where the company develops features like spatial audio and uses tuning studios as reference points for AirPods and other products  —  Inside Apple Audio Labs  —  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate 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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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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 …
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
In a peer-reviewed Nature article, DeepSeek says it has spent $294,000 on training its R1 model and used 512 Nvidia H800 chips  —  Chinese AI developer DeepSeek said it spent $294,000 on training its R1 model, much lower than figures reported for U.S. rivals, in a paper that is likely …
More: The Register and Nature
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.
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 …
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

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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
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”
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
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