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Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap’s SPECS as honorary customer experience chief

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Robert Downey Jr. has joined SPECS, Snap’s augmented reality glasses business, as its honorary chief customer experience officer, Snap announced. His job is to show people what the see-through glasses can do. SPECS runs as Specs Inc., a wholly owned Snap subsidiary. Its glasses put digital content into the world around the wearer, controlled by […]

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Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028

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“Some of the companies at the forefront of AI are telling Qualcomm, ‘By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone.’” Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said this on Sources, Alex Heath’s podcast. Heath recorded the interview at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon […]

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Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses

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Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also paused sales, Business Insider reported. “This decision follows the ongoing public and political debate surrounding […]

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Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports

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Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way to opt out, see the images or ask for them to […]

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Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance

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Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Ziad Asghar, who runs Qualcomm’s XR, wearables and personal AI business, […]

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Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera

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As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses market for the first half of 2026. Companies must define exactly what always-on cameras capture, he […]

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Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses

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Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the devices. It is not a policy statement. The same day, the department’s director general Jay Peckitt […]

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Meta plans camera-free smart glasses this autumn, The Information reports

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“We as a society have the right to at least know that someone is recording,” Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski told Business Insider about his ZuckOff app, which detects nearby smart glasses. Meta now plans to release a pair of smart glasses with no camera this autumn, The Information reported on 15 September, citing people familiar […]

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China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

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Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacturers for clear indicators when a camera or microphone is recording. Those rules regulate an act […]

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Snap is losing its $10 users and gaining $1 ones. It beat anyway, and the stock jumped.

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Snap had a good quarter, and the market treated it like a rescue. The shares jumped after hours, up as much as 13%, once the company beat estimates. The catch is where that rally begins: a stock near its all-time lows, down about 37% this year. The headline numbers were genuinely good. Revenue rose 19% […]

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