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Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 for audio wearables, with up to 2x greater on-device AI performance and up to 40% lower power consumption (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

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Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in the early phase of post-training and hopes it will be released "much earlier" than the end of the year (Laura Bratton/The Information)

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OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts (OpenAI)

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SoftBank raised ~$11B in debt through its junk bond sale, making the Japanese investment firm one of the biggest corporate junk-bond borrowers in the world (Bloomberg)

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During a Senate hearing, lawmakers criticized automatic license plate readers amid concerns about Flock; the CEOs of Flock and others declined to attend (Christian Robles/Nextgov/FCW)

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Meta says it will allow its AI glasses users to opt out of having their "visual data" used to train its AI or shown to third-party contractors outside the US (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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An interview with Mark Zuckerberg on the products released at Connect, camera-free Ray-Bans being in the works before the "pervert glasses" backlash, more (Joanna Stern/The New Things)

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan dismisses the idea of joining Meta's multistate child safety settlement, saying YouTube already has measures to protect young users (Clare Duffy/CNN)

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Sources: the Trump administration is considering an initiative to promote use of dollar-denominated stablecoins overseas, including via JVs with private firms (Bloomberg)

Sources: the Trump administration is considering a...

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Meta announces new features for Meta Ray-Ban Display, including expanded heads-up navigation tools, a new Explore app, and Dolby Atmos audio support (Anna Washenko/Engadget)

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Meta announces Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 with better battery life, a programmable action button, an added microphone, and two new frame styles, starting at $449 (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Meta plans to bring Private Processing to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, letting their AI assistant fulfill users' requests without Meta accessing their data (Wired)

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Meta previews hologram avatars for Meta VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display that feel more natural than Apple's persona avatars, available in early access this fall (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Meta previews hologram avatars for Meta VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display that feel more natural than Apple's persona avatars, available in early access this fall (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

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Meta says users will be able to video chat with Muse, agents will get their own email addresses, and Muse will get computer use on Mac and smart glasses support (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta says users will be able to video chat with Mu...

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Meta VR Glasses hands-on: supremely comfortable to wear, excellent for multitasking, immersive content looks beautiful, and relatively low cost (Hamish Hector/TechRadar)

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Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2-inch OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by year's end (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-...

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Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery life, ~2.5K resolution per eye, on sale spring 2027 for $1,299 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset wi...

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