Snap's eyewear subsidiary, Specs, partners with Qualcomm to power future AR glasses with Snapdragon technology, promising true spatial AR capabilities that accurately overlay digital content onto the real world — setting it apart from Meta and Google's competing devices ahead of a consumer launch later this year.
A San Francisco startup is growing AI chips from living human brain cells that train models 3x faster while using 66% less energy, backed by $25 million in seed funding and already in talks with major AI labs.
Snap's fifth-generation AR Spectacles impress with crisp visuals, gesture controls, and real-time multi-user AR experiences powered by four cameras and dual Snapdragon processors, but a bulky design and $99/month developer-only price tag stand between these glasses and mainstream adoption.
Google's Gemini can now generate interactive 3D simulations and models directly inside chat, allowing users to manipulate real-time variables like gravity and velocity to explore complex concepts hands-on — rolling out globally via gemini.google.com using the Pro model.
X is rolling out Grok-powered auto-translation globally and an AI photo editor on iOS with natural language editing capabilities, but consent concerns loom as it remains unclear whether safeguards will prevent sexualized edits of others' images.
HeyGen's new Avatar V AI system outperforms all tested rivals in lip-sync accuracy and realism, using a Diffusion Transformer and novel Sparse Reference Attention to capture identity and dynamic behaviors, achieving win rates between 68.9% and 85.7% in human evaluations.
A new open-source toolkit called Gemma Multimodal Fine-Tuner now lets developers fine-tune Google's Gemma AI models on text, images, and audio directly on Apple Silicon Macs, requiring no NVIDIA hardware and supporting terabyte-scale cloud datasets while keeping data fully private on-device.
Anthropic deploys Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful AI model deemed too dangerous for public release, in a $100M cross-industry initiative called Project Glasswing, partnering with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and CrowdStrike to identify and fix critical software vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.
Thousands of gig workers in Nigeria, India, and Argentina are strapping iPhones to their foreheads to record household chores, feeding a booming data industry that trains humanoid robots for companies like Tesla — but experts and privacy advocates are sounding alarms over how this intimate footage is stored, shared, and …
Google launches free AI avatars, Veo 3.1 video generation, and AI music tools in Google Vids just as OpenAI shuts down Sora, positioning itself as the dominant force in AI video creation for both consumers and enterprise users.