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Apple is developing AI-equipped AirPods with tiny cameras and smart glasses to compete with Meta's Ray-Ban and Oakley offerings, according to Bloomberg. The AirPods, featuring Visual Intelligence for …

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled the company's new AR Specs at AWE, positioning them as a 'see-through computer' rather than AI glasses. Spiegel emphasized that Specs are designed for computing overlay,…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered employees to have fun and participate in a companywide AI hackathon, but workers pushed back, citing low morale after brutal layoffs that cut 8,000 jobs last month. Th…

OpenAI reported $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs for 2025, resulting in a $20.92 billion operating loss, as the AI giant prepares for an IPO expected in 2026. The company's expenses …

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees in an internal chat that morale is near an all-time low, citing recent mass layoffs and mandatory AI task force reassignments. The company is taking steps to im…

Meta launched AI Mode in Facebook Search, using Meta AI to generate answers from public content in Groups, Reels, and other apps. The feature aims to surface real experiences and recommendations, but …

Developed market tech firms' CapEx-to-sales ratio hit a record 12%, the highest since the dot-com era, driven by a race to build AI infrastructure. The Magnificent Seven are leading the charge, with s…

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick imposed export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models under the Export Control Reform Act, citing national security risks. Anthropic disabled globa…

The G7 summit in Evian, France, is confronting the group's dependence on U.S. AI and Chinese energy supply chains, with U.S. export controls on Anthropic's frontier models sparking frustration among a…

A developer studying AI and big data warns that AI is increasing cyber vulnerability in two ways: attackers using AI for more sophisticated attacks, and vulnerabilities introduced by integrating AI in…

Snap launched its Specs augmented reality glasses at $2,195 on Monday, taking preorders with a $200 deposit for a fall 2026 release in the US, UK, and France. The self-contained glasses run on two Sna…

Snap Inc. has opened pre-orders for its consumer augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at $2,195 with a $200 refundable deposit. The lightweight, see-through AR glasses run on Snap OS 2.0 and feature…

Xreal's Android XR Aura glasses, powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Reality Elite chip, will launch this fall. The chip offers up to 60% better GPU, 30% better CPU, and 160% better AI performance th…

Meta is systematically dismantling its high-performance engineering culture, shifting from a profit center to a cost center in weeks. Leadership's AI-focused mandates and restructuring have caused wid…

Meta launched AI Mode on Facebook in June 2026, replacing traditional search with conversational answers synthesized from public posts, Groups, and Reels using its Llama 3 model. The feature lacks a s…

JPMorgan raised its estimates for global AI and data center spending to at least $5 trillion by 2030, citing a surge in capital expenditures from hyperscalers and strong demand for high-yield data cen…

Subquadratic released the model card and technical report for SubQ 1.1 Small, a long-context model using Subquadratic Sparse Attention, on June 16. The company claims the model achieves 100% retrieval…

Western Digital has sold out its entire 2026 HDD production, driven by AI data center demand from hyperscalers including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta. The company reported $3.02 billion in Q2 2…

The US Army commissioned three more tech executives, including Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, into Detachment 201 as lieutenant colonels, bringing the total to seven Silicon Valley leaders advising the P…

Oracle plans to raise up to $50 billion in 2026 to fund a massive AI infrastructure buildout across the US, Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The company reported OCI revenue surged 93% y…