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Meta Platforms plans to start testing an AI pendant in the next year as part of an ambitious roadmap for wearable devices aimed at reversing the huge losses in its hardware division.
An internal memo describing the roadmap, reviewed by The Information, also lays out plans to significantly expand its selection of AI glasses and to add a business-focused service called “Wearables for Work.” The memo, from Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of wearables, says the strategy is in part to drive more use of Meta’s
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In 1946, six women at the Moore School of Engineering were handed the wiring diagrams for ENIAC and told to program it without manuals. The ballistic trajectory they got running became the first working software ever demonstrated on a general-purpose electronic computer — and their names were left off the press release. Read more ›
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Mortal Shell 2, the inventive Soulslike RPG from developer Cold Symmetry, has an official release date. The game will arrive 20th August on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S. While Mortal Shell 2 has always been set for release this year, its release window was the biggest mystery. Read more Read more ›
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Signs that Microsoft is open to spinning off its struggling Xbox gaming unit have put the spotlight on the tech conglomerate’s vast mix of businesses. Investors typically don’t like conglomerates, and that’s as true for Microsoft as for any other such company. We calculated what Microsoft’s three main businesses—cloud, software and personal computing—would be worth if each was trading at valuations in line with rivals in those sectors. The total... Read more ›
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the creation of a new business unit geared towards helping large customers set up customized AI applications, commercial CEO Judson Althoff announced. Microsoft is spending $2.5 billion and assigning 6,000 employees to the effort, called Microsoft Frontier ... Read more ›
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Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. If the Claude maker goes ahead with the chip, it would be a relative newcomer in developing its own... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s agenda, check out Phoebe’s report Wednesday night that Nvidia has launched a new program to financially backstop customers’ purchases of its AI chips. It’s yet another way Nvidia is leveraging its powerful balance sheet to keep the GPU data center party going.On to the column…As more companies reassess rising prices for advanced AI models and tokenmaxxing among their employees, model routers are having a moment... Read more ›
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Tesla’s vehicle deliveries rebounded by 25% to 480,000 in the second quarter, following a sales slump in 2025, the company said on Thursday. Out of the deliveries, 468,000 were Model 3 or Model Y vehicles, while 12,000 were other models including the Cybertruck, Model X and Model S. Tesla ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has discussed the government taking an equity stake in the company with a range of percentages put forward, according to a person familiar with the talks, who described the discussions as preliminary. The Financial Times earlier reported that OpenAI CEO had proposed a 5% stake. In a ... Read more ›
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Jay Puri, Nvidia’s top sales executive and one of CEO Jensen Huang’s direct reports, stepped down from his day-to-day role Wednesday, according to a Thursday regulatory filing. Puri, 71, told Nvidia on June 28 he intends to retire on his successor’s first day. Nicholas Parker, a longtime ... Read more ›
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Microsoft is merging the consumer and enterprise versions of its Copilot AI chatbots into a single application as it tries to create a more formidable competitor to Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a Microsoft executive told staff Thursday morning. In a 1,200-word memo, Jacob Andreou, an executive vice president, said the new unified app will also feature AI coding tools and new AI agents that customers would need to pay... Read more ›
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The European Court of Justice dismissed Google’s final appeal on Thursday in an antitrust case over its Android operating system, ending an eight-year legal battle that began when the European Commission first fined the search giant in 2018. As a result, Google will have to pay 4.1 billion ($4.7 ... Read more ›
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Tesla told staff last month it would impose a $200 per week limit for staff’s AI spending beginning July 6, according to an internal memo, a sign that even companies committed to using the technology to transform their operations and products are having to watch their costs. Over the past few months, software engineers at Tesla were often consuming thousands of dollars’ worth of tokens each week, according to two... Read more ›
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