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    Meta shows off wild VR prototypes with 180-degree view and retinal clarity

    Meta just previewed two new VR research prototypes ahead of SIGGRAPH 2025 to test the limits of mixed reality displays. The Tiramisu headset hits 90 PPD angular resolution and 1,400 nits of brightness to tackle the visual Turing test, while Boba 3 expands field of view to 180 degrees using dual 4K displays. Why it matters: they are bulky research rigs that won't ship tomorrow, but they map out the future of consumer hardware.

  2. AI toolsReach 35

    Brilliant Labs' $299 smart glasses remember who you meet

    Brilliant Labs just unveiled the Halo smart glasses, a $299 rival to Meta's Ray-Bans featuring a peripheral microOLED display and bone-conduction speakers. Its Noa AI assistant uses a memory system dubbed Narrative to recall names and past conversation details when you meet people, along with an experimental voice-coding mode. It gives wearers a lightweight, heads-up second brain right on their face.

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    Mark Zuckerberg's case for personal superintelligence

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just outlined his vision for "Personal Superintelligence," arguing that advanced AI should empower individuals rather than centrally automate all human work. Zuckerberg noted that AI systems are already beginning to self-improve, predicting that context-aware smart glasses will become our primary interface for these personal companions.

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    Meta poaches three top DeepMind researchers

    Meta just hired three key Google DeepMind researchers—Tianhe Yu, Cosmo Du, and Weiyue Wang—who contributed to Google's Gemini models. The move is part of Mark Zuckerberg's aggressive talent push, offering massive compensation packages to lure top researchers from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Meta is going all-in to build out its AGI muscle.

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    Meta and AWS team up to back 30 Llama startups

    Meta and AWS just launched a joint program to support 30 early-stage US startups building on Llama models. Selected teams receive six months of technical mentorship, compute credits via AWS Activate, and go-to-market backing. It marks another push by Meta to cement Llama as the default open-weights foundation for the startup ecosystem.

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    Scale AI slashes 14% of staff after massive Meta investment

    Scale AI just cut 200 full-time employees and dropped 500 contractors following Meta's multi-billion-dollar investment. The deal saw co-founder Alexandr Wang leave for Meta, triggering rivals like OpenAI and Google to pull back their business over privacy concerns. Scale is now scrambling to trim bloated bureaucracy and pivot toward government and enterprise contracts.

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    Meta is putting data centers in literal tents to rush AI compute

    Meta is so desperate to close the AI gap with rivals like OpenAI and Google that it is setting up literal tents for temporary data center capacity while permanent sites are under construction. According to SemiAnalysis, the ultra-light setups skip backup generators entirely to bring raw compute online as fast as possible. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg also announced a massive 5-gigawatt facility dubbed Hyperion.

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    Meta's multi-gigawatt AI supercluster flex

    Meta is pouring hundreds of billions into massive multi-gigawatt data centers to power its new Superintelligence Labs. The first cluster, Prometheus, arrives next year, followed by Hyperion—a 5-gigawatt behemoth that triples OpenAI's planned footprint. Zuck's goal is straightforward: give his newly poached researchers the most compute per head on the planet.

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    Meta is considering closing its AI gates

    Meta's newly formed superintelligence lab is debating ditching its next open-source flagship model, code-named Behemoth, in favor of closed development. Insiders report the frontier model was paused after disappointing internal performance. While Mark Zuckerberg hasn't officially signed off, moving away from open source would be a massive strategic reversal for the company.

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    Meta scoops up voice AI startup PlayAI

    Meta just acquired voice AI startup PlayAI to supercharge its speech generation capabilities, with the entire startup team joining next week. PlayAI's human-sounding voice platform will be folded directly into Meta AI, smart wearables, and AI Characters. Why it matters: Meta is aggressively hoovering up audio talent to give its future smart devices a much more natural voice.

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    Meta buys $3.5B stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica to fuel AR push

    Meta just acquired a $3.5 billion stake in EssilorLuxottica, the luxury eyewear maker behind its smart glasses. The roughly 3% stake could rise to 5% over time as Meta prepares to launch smart glasses under the Oakley brand. It is a massive financial bet on Mark Zuckerberg's belief that smart glasses will eventually overtake smartphones.

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    Meta poaches Apple's AI models chief

    Meta just recruited Apple's head of AI models, Ruoming Pang, to join Mark Zuckerberg's new AI superintelligence team. Pang previously oversaw the training of foundation models behind Apple Intelligence and on-device features. Why it matters: After raiding DeepMind and OpenAI, Meta lands specialized expertise to boost its small on-device AI capabilities.

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    Ilya Sutskever takes the helm at SSI after CEO exits

    OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever just took over as CEO of Safe Superintelligence (SSI) following Daniel Gross's departure on June 29. Amid reports that Meta tried to acquire the $32 billion startup, Sutskever brushed off the buyout rumors, confirming SSI has the compute and team to stay independent and build safe superintelligence.

  16. AI toolsReach 35

    Meta's chatbots will now message you first

    Meta is testing proactive follow-up messages from AI chatbots across Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. Custom personas created in AI Studio can ping users within 14 days if they previously exchanged at least five messages, though bots stop after one unreturned message. Why it matters: Meta is adopting companion-style tactics like Character.AI to drive retention, opening fresh questions about safety.

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    WhatsApp adds business voice calls, opening the door for AI agents

    WhatsApp just opened up voice calling to large business accounts through its API, allowing two-way calls between companies and customers. The move lets merchants plug in voice AI agents from startups like ElevenLabs and Vapi for automated support, while Meta also explores AI-driven product recommendations.

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    Meta wants access to your camera roll for AI features

    Meta is testing an opt-in cloud processing feature on Facebook that scans unpublished photos from users' camera rolls to generate AI restyles and recaps. While Meta insists these personal images aren't currently used to train models, it refused to rule out doing so down the road.