Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push — Melissa Heikkilä in London …
Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers
At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues
Xreal unveils Project Aura, expected to be the first Android XR glasses, powered by a separate puck with the main Qualcomm chip, slated to launch by early 2026
An Optical See-Through XR Device for Android XR David Heaney / UploadVR : Xreal's Project Aura Will Support Google's Android XR Via A Tethered Puck Mahnoor Faisal / XDA Developers ...
How Mark Zuckerberg made Llama a cornerstone of AI ambitions at Meta, whose smartphone-era services and products have been constrained by Apple and Google
Zuckerberg has pushed Meta to build Llama into all its products and services, including its Orion augmented reality glasses now in prototype stage.
Sources: Apple delays the production of a cheaper Vision Pro beyond 2027, meaning its only new headset in 2025 will be a Vision Pro with an M5 chip
M4 Max beats the Core Ultra 9 285K and Ryzen 9 9950X Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac : Kuo: Cheaper ‘Apple Vision’ headset delayed beyond 2027 Carrie Marshall / T3 : Apple Vision Pro c...
Meta unveils an Orion prototype, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, a wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors
they could put the iPhone on notice Peter Kafka / Business Insider : I tried out Meta's Orion computer glasses. I'd buy them in a heartbeat — if they were actually for sale. Jon Ke...
Hands-on with Meta's Orion: needs a wireless processor puck, weighs only 100g, is packed with sensors, and has good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.” — I wore Mark Zuckerberg's contact lenses.
Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources say Apple still plans a cheaper model by the end of 2025
Apple Suspends Work on Next High-End Headset, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025 Apple has told at least one supplier …
Kuo: Vision Pro demand is higher than Apple originally expected, with US shipments expected to hit 200-250k units this year; return rates are now below 1%
but a cheaper model could be here sooner Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : Kuo: Apple Vision Pro on Track to Launch in More Countries Before WWDC in June Nick Soong / Appleosophy : Kuo: ...
Sources: Meta is optimistic Vision Pro can reinvigorate its $50B metaverse effort, with the Quest ecosystem filling the role played by Android in smartphones
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal :
Imbue, formerly Generally Intelligent, which claims to have access to 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs to train its AI “agents”, raised a $200M Series B at a $1B valuation
ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :