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Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be
It’s probably fair to say Meta is facing serious public backlash to its AI glasses. Musician Lorde took time at a recent concert to tell her audience, “Don’t get the glasses,” many online are branding them “pervert glasses,” and activist group Everyone Hates Elon has put up spoof adverts for…
Read MoreAI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development — or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. “Al could…
Read MoreLogitech will pull a Nintendo — only European mice will come with replaceable batteries
In June, Nintendo announced a new version of the Switch 2 that should let you easily replace its battery pack — but only for Europe. Logitech will do much the same. User-replaceable batteries will be the law in Europe in February 2027, but instead of bringing them to the rest…
Read MoreMeta drops major climate pledge after a decade of membership, says it is still committed to renewable energy
Meta has funded multiple natural gas power plants over the past 12 months The corporate renewable energy initiative RE100 includes Apple, Google, and Microsoft among its 444 members Meta has previously committed to running all operations on renewables by 2020 Meta has confirmed it is withdrawing from the RE100 scheme,…
Read MoreThe CW’s live sports programming is coming to ESPN on August 4
The CW's live sports programming is coming to ESPN on August 4. Source
Read MoreNvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there’s no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
Nvidia and Microsoft lead the list of founder members of the Open Secure AI Alliance AI, financial services, tech companies, and other organizations with developing AI services have joined the alliance Notable exceptions include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Nvidia has confirmed its membership of the new Open Secure AI Alliance,…
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