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Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery life, ~2.5K resolution per eye, on sale spring 2027 for $1,299 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [44d]
Meta adds an FDA-cleared hearing enhancement feature to supported Meta Glasses for Meta One subscribers or a one-time cost of $149, rolling out later this year (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget) [44d]
Meta unveils the Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first pair of glasses without cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life, starting at $349 and shipping October 3 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [44d]
Court docs: OpenAI says Apple's ChatGPT integration to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones "dramatically underperformed" after it launched in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times) [44d]
A live blog of Meta Connect 2026, where a new pair of Meta Glasses without cameras onboard and a new VR headset are expected (Engadget) [44d]
A livestream of the Meta Connect 2026 opening keynote (Meta on YouTube) [44d]
Source: a CoreWeave-tied data center raised $1.1B in junk bonds at 98.5 cents on the dollar to yield 9.25%, ~2.7 percentage points above similarly rated debt (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg) [44d]
Microsoft unveils the $1,149+ Surface Pro 12-inch and the $1,199+ Surface Laptop 13-inch with Snapdragon X2 Plus, and a new Surface Mouse with built-in haptics (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [44d]
Microsoft plans to invest more than $10B through 2030 in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE, including a $7.9B UAE investment it announced last year (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) [44d]
Colorado-based Enveda, which uses AI to discover new drugs in the natural world, raised a $311M Series E at a $2B valuation, double its valuation a year ago (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [44d]
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei tell the UN Security Council that governments and industry should coordinate on AI safety standards and critical decisions (Bloomberg) [44d]
Sources: Flock Safety is weighing a potential sale and has held preliminary talks with outside advisers (Rohan Goswami/Semafor) [44d]
Australian PM Anthony Albanese says an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to a public-facing Medicare portal in June, accessing public and non-public files (The Age) [44d]