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Confirming earlier reports , Meta announced its first pair of camera-free AI glasses, the clunkily named Ray-Ban Meta Audio, at its Connect 2026 conference on Wednesday. Designed to combat criticism around the more malicious use cases for AI glasses, which saw them nicknamed “pervert glasses” by some, the new devices will be audio-only, offering the…
It’s about time for Meta Connect, the company’s annual product launch event. This year, given the company’s major focus on AI and wearables like smart glasses, it seems likely that we’ll see updates from CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his team on those categories.
Meta is quickly iterating on its new Muse AI agent, announcing a bunch of updates today that make the bot more capable and able to chat with you in more ways. Muse agents are getting their own email addresses that they can use for accomplishing tasks.
Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone’s sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It’s a marked difference here, a tech bubble where “pervert glasses” are not a concern.
Last week, Anthropic confirmed that it was operating a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it uses its AI models to run physical experiments. This week, the AI giant announced that this lab has already made what it believes is a big discovery: a new enzyme “system” that has certain “properties reminiscent of CRISPR,” as Anthropic describes it .
It’s time once again for Meta’s annual September product launch event, and The Verge is on the ground in Menlo Park to cover the show live. Meta says that today’s keynote by Mark Zuckerberg will be about how “Meta is building a future for everyone” — something he wrote at length about in a recent essay about AI, smart glasses, and more.
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke is getting a first-hand look at the AI-workplace revolution, and it isn’t a pretty sight. New reporting by Fortune revealed the disastrous results of Shopify’s all-out scramble to embrace AI nearly a year ago.
Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also has a customizable action button for the first time, which is primarily designed for quick access to Copilot ( of course ), but can be configured to work with other shortcuts from the Surface app.
Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware features from last year, with faster and more capable chips inside and higher price tags (thanks RAMageddon !).
Enveda , a biotech startup that uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, has raised a $311 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation. The fresh funding, which was led by Catalio Capital Management, with participation from Iconiq and others, doubles the valuation Enveda achieved 12 months ago.
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech As backlash against its surveillance network refuses to die down, Flock Safety is kicking off an employee buyout program that’ll let workers leave the company with a “generous” severance package, Wired reports . It’s seemingly an admission that the company is…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data — and more say — on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply.
Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all , minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of.
Classic MuJoCo provides fast CPU-based robot simulation for developing, testing, and controlling robots and it can parallelize sampling across CPU cores. But as learning workloads grow, the question shifts from how quickly one world can run to how many worlds can run at once.
Anthropic says its AI Claude has “autonomously discovered” a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It’s the first result from Anthropic’s newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude’s usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public.
OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is bringing voice-based agentic features to mobile, allowing users to trigger workflows like drafting documents or summarizing emails. Plus and Pro users will be able to use the Work tab on their phone to create a document, draft an email, or summarize Slack messages, for instance.
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Alibaba Cloud has released a new lightweight image generation AI model, called Qwen Image 2.1 . Sporting just 7 billion parameters, it's an extremely lean open-weight model, able to run on even older consumer graphics cards like the RTX 3090.
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People across the world are increasingly turning to AI for everyday tasks, from looking up recipes and doing their homework to researching work projects or making presentations. But using AI every day doesn’t necessarily mean people are feeling comfortable with its implications for the world: About 68% of Americans who use AI daily are worried about it,…
OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, cofounder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X that he’s joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product.