Happy Thursday.
Everything announced at Meta Connect in 15 seconds:
Muse updates: voice, live video, email, glasses support, and new integrations.
Meta VR Glasses: lightweight VR glasses launching next spring for $1,299.
Muse Charm: a pocket-sized AI device with an OLED screen and 5G.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio: Meta’s first audio-only smart glasses, priced at $349.
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Enjoy today's news.
Meta announces lightweight VR glasses, Muse updates, Ray-Ban audio-only smart glasses, and the Muse Charm device.
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YouTube launches new creator and viewer features at Made on YouTube, including custom home feeds, conversational editing, and Studio AI assistance.
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Eight Sleep introduces Pod 6, its sixth-generation sleep system with a smaller Hub, 9x more sensors, and new Solo sizes.
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Anthropic discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats, marking its first biology research breakthrough.
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Anduril wins the XPRIZE Wildfire competition, detecting and suppressing test blazes within 10 minutes using autonomous drones and sensors.
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Disney raises subscription prices for Disney+ and Hulu, pushing standalone ad-free plans to $21.49 per month.
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Geely debuts an ultrafast AI charging system, powering EVs from 10% to 97% in under nine minutes to challenge BYD.
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Toyota plans an electric Corolla, bringing a fully electric version to its best-selling car.
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Airbnb partners with American Farmland Trust to launch Farm to Stay grants, offering U.S. farmers up to $10,000 for agritourism listings.
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DeepSeek tests an efficient AI agent training platform, running millions of monitored sandboxes to curb misbehavior.
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A Gallup and Microsoft survey reveals Americans feel the most worried about AI, ranking among the least optimistic worldwide.
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Tencent launches the TenPayGo app, letting overseas visitors pay at millions of Chinese merchants without a local phone number.
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Notch launches an AI marketer that ran a real brand independently for six weeks.
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New Things podcast: Joanna Stern interviews Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Meta's new audio-only Ray-Bans, lighter VR glasses, Muse AI agent capabilities, and potential existential risks of AI.
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The Ezra Klein Show: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explains AI job impacts, why he rejects doomer warnings, and his case against new AI regulation.
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The a16z Show: Erik Torenberg sits down with Replit CEO Amjad Masad and a16z Academy CEO Gagan Biyani to discuss reimagining education for the AI generation, curiosity-driven learning, and balancing ambition with judgment.
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Rails World 2026: Ruby on Rails, Omarchy creator and 37signals co-owner David Heinemeier Hansson opens the conference on the age of AI agents, why 37signals went “pencils down” on handwritten code, and why Rails is built for vibe coding and agentic software.
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As promised, tech and startups in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
P.S. Graph of the day… 😮
