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EssilorLuxottica Shares Fall After Apple Signals 2027 AI Eyewear Entry
Consumer Tech

EssilorLuxottica Shares Fall After Apple Signals 2027 AI Eyewear Entry

EssilorLuxottica shares fell sharply after Apple signalled plans for AI-enabled eyewear targeted for 2027, prompting investors to reprice growth expectations for companies exposed to smart-glasses. Reports that Apple is accelerating engineering across multiple wearable form factors — and has acquired Israeli AI talent to speed perception capabilities — amplified concerns around supply-chain concentration and platform-driven margin pressure for incumbents.

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OpenAI building consumer AI speaker, glasses and lamp, report says

OpenAI building consumer AI speaker, glasses and lamp, report says

OpenAI has assembled a dedicated team to build a family of consumer AI devices, starting with a camera-equipped speaker priced around $200–$300 and not expected to ship before February 2027. The push comes as other big tech players accelerate on-device sensing and multimodal assistants, raising engineering, supply-chain and privacy trade-offs OpenAI will have to manage.

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Apple pivots to AI-first wearables with glasses, pendant and camera-enabled AirPods
Consumer Tech

Apple pivots to AI-first wearables with glasses, pendant and camera-enabled AirPods

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WordPress.com launches built-in AI assistant to edit sites, restyle pages and generate images
Consumer Tech

WordPress.com launches built-in AI assistant to edit sites, restyle pages and generate images

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Unity to unveil AI beta that generates complete casual games from natural-language prompts
Consumer Tech

Unity to unveil AI beta that generates complete casual games from natural-language prompts

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Airbnb pilots AI search while expanding support chatbot that already handles one-third of North American requests
Consumer Tech

Airbnb pilots AI search while expanding support chatbot that already handles one-third of North American requests

Airbnb is piloting a natural‑language AI search with a small cohort of users while expanding an automated support agent that currently resolves about 33% of tickets in the U.S. and Canada. Company leaders position the initiative as the start of a trip‑spanning assistant, though details on pilot size, evaluation metrics and a public launch timeline remain undisclosed.

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Mehmet Oz Proposes AI Avatars to Address Rural Health Shortages

Mehmet Oz Proposes AI Avatars to Address Rural Health Shortages

CMS chief Mehmet Oz is pitching AI avatars and automated diagnostics as part of a proposed $50 billion rural modernization plan to expand clinician reach and cut paperwork, while experts warn the approach raises clinical safety, privacy, governance and digital‑equity concerns that must be resolved before scale‑up.

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Meta reportedly readies facial recognition for its smart glasses

Meta reportedly readies facial recognition for its smart glasses

Meta is reportedly preparing a facial-recognition feature, internally called Name Tag, for its smart glasses and plans to integrate identification capabilities with its AI assistant potentially this year. The push comes as Meta ramps up its AI-eyewear commercial strategy amid rising unit sales and an internal pivot inside Reality Labs, increasing pressure to deliver distinctive features despite privacy and technical risks.

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Baidu integrates OpenClaw AI agent into its search app ahead of Lunar New Year

Baidu integrates OpenClaw AI agent into its search app ahead of Lunar New Year

Baidu will let users opt in to interact with the open-source OpenClaw agent inside its flagship search app to automate tasks like scheduling, file organization and code writing. The integration accelerates AI-driven convenience across Baidu’s services ahead of the Lunar New Year but also brings into focus documented security exposures and the need for hardened, managed deployments.

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Consumer Tech

AI-driven content fears trigger a sharp sell-off in media stocks

Worries that rapidly improving AI tools can flood feeds with low-cost audio and video content prompted a steep intraday sell-off across major media and streaming stocks as investors re-priced competitive risk. The move fits a broader, theme-driven market rotation—where algorithmic trading, credit repricing and platform‑level moderation challenges amplify sentiment shifts—and underscored uneven exposure across firms depending on content moats and data advantages.

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Nike’s Project Amplify Debuts as a Battery-Powered Footwear System Aiming to Boost Everyday Mobility
Consumer Tech

Nike’s Project Amplify Debuts as a Battery-Powered Footwear System Aiming to Boost Everyday Mobility

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Waymo verifies driverless operation in Nashville as it stages move toward paid service
Consumer Tech

Waymo verifies driverless operation in Nashville as it stages move toward paid service

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Discord will require ID or a biometric check to view adult content
Consumer Tech

Discord will require ID or a biometric check to view adult content

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TON Pay launches SDK to embed crypto payments inside Telegram
Consumer Tech

TON Pay launches SDK to embed crypto payments inside Telegram

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Consumer Tech

Owlchemy Labs rethinks VR input: hand tracking as embodiment, not just control

Owlchemy Labs’ Dimensional Double Shift abandons controllers to make hand movement the primary interaction model, prioritizing natural gestures, accessibility, and perceived touch through physics-driven techniques. The studio built a modular grab system, adaptive scaling and invisible accessibility features to mitigate hardware limits while preserving expressiveness and social play.

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Consumer Tech

ElevenLabs CEO Says Voice Will Replace Screens as AI’s Primary Interface

Speaking at Web Summit in Doha, ElevenLabs’ CEO argued that recent advances in expressive speech synthesis and memory-enabled models position voice to become the dominant interface for AI, shifting interactions off screens and into wearables. The company’s Sequoia-led $500M round at an ~$11B valuation — alongside reported ARR above $300M and new board representation — will bankroll product scale, multimodal ambitions and international expansion, even as persistent listening raises acute privacy and regulatory questions.

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Oppo and Huawei reportedly explore square-format front sensor after iPhone 17 push
Consumer Tech

Oppo and Huawei reportedly explore square-format front sensor after iPhone 17 push

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Google prepares Gemini to act inside Android apps to place orders and book rides
Consumer Tech

Google prepares Gemini to act inside Android apps to place orders and book rides

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Nintendo Switch passes 155 million sales to become company's best-selling console
Consumer Tech

Nintendo Switch passes 155 million sales to become company's best-selling console

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Roblox opens 4D creation tools to creators in open beta
Consumer Tech

Roblox opens 4D creation tools to creators in open beta

Roblox has launched an open beta of a generative system that produces interactive, behavior-enabled game objects rather than static 3D meshes. The move aims to accelerate creator workflows, broaden the range of publishable content and shift some design work from manual scripting to AI-driven templates.

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