Smart glasses from Meta, Snap, and other tech giants are facing backlash as consumers label them 'pervert glasses' due to privacy concerns over covert recording and surveillance. Critics warn that the…
Tech workers from Amazon, Google, Snap, and Nike told Business Insider that outsiders misunderstand their jobs, which involve far more than coding and face constant pressure to keep learning. They als…
Meta launched cheaper smart glasses under its own brand on June 23, reigniting privacy debates about camera-equipped eyewear. Critics focus on the glasses themselves, but the real privacy concern lies…
AI video startup Higgsfield, founded in 2023, is in talks to raise $300mn to $500mn at a $5bn valuation, quadrupling its January worth. The company has reached a $500mn annualized revenue run rate, dr…
June 2026 saw major gadget announcements at Computex, Apple's WWDC, and AWE, including Dell's XPS 13 laptop, Segway's Navimow X430 lawn mower, and Xbox Series X25, but rising component costs due to AI…
Xgimi launched a Kickstarter for its MemoMind One smart glasses, which lack cameras for a discreet design but feature a green micro-LED display. Priced at $599, the glasses offer AI-powered informatio…
Microsoft promoted Jacob Andreou to Executive Vice President of Copilot, consolidating consumer and commercial AI teams under his leadership. The former Snap executive, who demonstrated Copilot Tasks …
Microsoft executive Jacob Andreou, 33, successfully ordered a McDonald's cheeseburger using the company's AI tool Copilot Tasks, demonstrating the product's capabilities. CEO Satya Nadella has entrust…
Billionaire Mark Cuban urged AI companies to spend billions of dollars to support towns and cities affected by job losses from artificial intelligence, calling it a 'cost of doing business.' In a post…
The White House helped Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai avoid testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on child safety scheduled for June 23, 2026, according to sources.…
Snap debuted its augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, offering a tightly curated museum experience where users can overlay AI-filtered versions of themselve…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company's new AI glasses must balance fashion with function to gain consumer adoption. Meta unveiled a $299 smart glasses line developed with EssilorLuxottica, as riv…
French street artist JR transformed the Pont Neuf, Paris's oldest bridge, into an artificial cave wrapped in printed canvas depicting Lutetian limestone, paying homage to Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Th…
Amazon walked away from an OpenAI movie deal, likely due to the $50 billion valuation gap versus a $50 million budget and concerns the film could be anti-AI. Meta launched $299 AI glasses without the …
AI is driving a resurgence in augmented reality (AR) by enhancing utility, improving form factors, and reducing costs, with smart glasses sales surging 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026. Manufacturers li…
Higgsfield launched Supercomputer 2.0, an enterprise marketing automation agent built on NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit, claiming 78% of Fortune 500 companies use its platform. The AI video startup says the s…
Snap spun off its AI video team into a new company called Dotmo due to high costs, signaling that video generation remains the most expensive AI task. The move highlights the financial burden of AI vi…
Snap launched SPECS, a new augmented reality glasses product, signaling continued Big Tech investment in AR wearables as a potential smartphone successor.…
Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy is personally investing in Dotmo, a new company spun out of Snap's generative AI video team to build models for interactive gaming experiences. Snap will license t…
Snap is spinning off its internal generative AI video team into a new company called Dotmo, citing high costs of internal development. Dotmo will focus on AI models for interactive gaming, with Snap r…