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Meta is developing an AI-powered wearable pendant and plans to begin testing within the next year, building on its late-2025 acquisition of Limitless. The move signals a bigger ambient AI hardware push — and a fresh test of whether the category can find a mass audience.
Meta cut 8,000 employees as part of an AI restructuring that pushed 2026 tech sector layoffs past 100,000 globally — nearly half explicitly linked to AI adoption.
Google and Samsung announced Android XR smart glasses with Gemini AI at I/O 2026, entering the consumer AI wearables race against Apple and Meta.
Apple's next AirPods Pro — internally called "AirPods Ultra" — have reached advanced testing with cameras designed to give Siri real-world visual context, challenging Meta and Google in ambient AI.
Meta launched Incognito Chat on WhatsApp — AI conversations processed inside a secure enclave that even Meta cannot access, with messages temporary by default.
Canadian Tire, Walmart, and other major retailers are restructuring product descriptions and metadata to be parsed by AI shopping agents — the traditional SEO playbook is becoming obsolete.
Microsoft, Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon report Q1 2026 earnings today with a combined $600B AI infrastructure commitment under scrutiny — the biggest AI ROI test of the year.
China has ordered Meta to reverse its completed $2 billion acquisition of agentic AI startup Manus — a rare post-close unwind demand signaling Beijing's hardening stance on U.S. firms absorbing Chinese-origin AI talent.
China's NDRC has ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus — Beijing's most direct intervention yet in a U.S. tech company's attempt to acquire an AI firm tied to Chinese nationals.
Meta and Microsoft announced roughly 20,000 job cuts in a single week—and new data shows AI and automation now account for nearly half of all tech-sector layoffs.
Meta released Muse Spark, claiming it matches Llama 4 capability at one-tenth the training compute — a potential inflection point in AI efficiency economics.
Meta released Muse Spark, its first major AI model in over a year, deploying multimodal reasoning across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and Meta AI glasses for three billion users.
Meta's new Muse Spark model is fully proprietary, marking a fundamental strategic reversal from the open-source Llama family. Here's what changed, why it happened, and what it means for developers and competitors.
Avid and Google Cloud are embedding Gemini models and Vertex AI into Media Composer, bringing autonomous metadata logging and agentic editing workflows to professional post-production for the first time.
Meta debuted Muse Spark on April 8 — a proprietary multimodal model from its new Superintelligence Labs, marking a sharp break from the open-source Llama playbook.
Meta Superintelligence Labs launched Muse Spark, a natively multimodal model with tool use and multi-agent capabilities, backed by $135B in 2026 AI capex.