Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
… EssilorLuxottica, which manufactures the Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses with Meta, did not respond to a request for comment. …
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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
The coalition, which includes the ACLU, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Fight for the Future, Access Now, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, is demanding Meta kill the feature before launch, after internal documents surfaced showing the company hoped to use the curr… …
Meta Is Shutting Down Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest
… As Meta shifts its focus to artificial intelligence and its Ray-Ban smart glasses, it has drastically cut its investments in its metaverse divisions, including stopping updates to very popular services like Supernatural Fitness. “Meta’s pivot on Horizon Worlds is the predicted and inevitable outcom… …
‘Uncanny Valley’: Nvidia’s ‘Super Bowl of AI,’ Tesla Disappoints, and Meta’s VR Metaverse ‘Shutdown’
… Brian Barrett: And meantime, there is some actual real world, happening-right-now competition going on. A lot of this is focused on future state stuff, but we do have—Nvidia chips are facing competition. …
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
… Record Low Morale Everything Announced at Google I/O 2026: Gemini, Search, Smart Glasses Google Search Goes Agentic—and Doesn’t Need You Anymore Meet the Sad Wives of AI You can follow Brian Barrett on Bluesky at @brbarrett, Zoë Schiffer on Bluesky at @zoeschiffer, and Leah Feiger on Bluesky at @le… …