Meta’s Smart Glasses Dominate the Event The annual Meta Connect conference made it unmistakable that the social media giant is betting heavily on its expanding line of smart glasses. Throughout the showcase, both employees and influencers wore the devices, and…
Explosive growth in cities and riders In September 2024 Waymo served just three markets—Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco—while today it operates robotaxi service in 15 U.S. cities, with most of those launches occurring in the past year. Ridership has surged…
AI Enhancements to Studio App During its annual Made On YouTube gathering, the platform introduced several AI-driven updates to the YouTube Studio app, the primary dashboard for channel owners. The most notable expansion is Ask Studio, the AI-powered Q&A feature,…
Milan’s Robot Spectacle Draws Viral Criticism During the fifth edition of Vogue World, a troupe of humanoid robots built by the Chinese firm Unitree entered the Galleria in Milan as part of the act titled “The Age of Intelligence,” dancing…
Announcing the new device Meta has entered the arena of AI amulets with its own offering, the Muse Charm. The wearable is designed to keep users connected to Muse, the company’s recently launched and already popular personal AI agent. CEO…
Meta unveiled its personal AI assistant Muse just weeks ago, and the company is already accelerating its rollout with a suite of new capabilities. At the annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighted Muse as…
Enhanced Workflows for Plus and Pro Subscribers OpenAI disclosed on Wednesday that its mobile platform will now support voice-activated agentic tasks, enabling users to trigger complex workflows such as drafting documents or summarizing emails. Subscribers on the Plus and Pro…
AI‑Driven Discovery in a Wet Lab Anthropic revealed that its newly opened wet biology laboratory in the Bay Area has identified a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in bacteriophage DNA. The company says the system can cut, copy, and paste…
AI Sensing Hub Enables On‑Device Personalization and Voice Agents Qualcomm today unveiled two flagship processors at its annual Snapdragon Summit: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Both chips feature a new sensing…
Why autonomy matters for a startup Traditional NASA missions rely on large teams of flight controllers on Earth, as illustrated by the OSIRIS-REx asteroid rendezvous in 2018, which required 100 operators working eight‑hour shifts. Such manpower is out of reach…
