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OpenAI building consumer AI speaker, glasses and lamp, report says
Consumer Tech & Hardware

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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EssilorLuxottica Shares Fall After Apple Signals 2027 AI Eyewear Entry

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

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 & Hardware

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 & Hardware

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

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Mehmet Oz Proposes AI Avatars to Address Rural Health Shortages
Consumer Tech & Hardware

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

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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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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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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Consumer Tech & Hardware

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 & Hardware

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 & Hardware

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 & Hardware

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 & Hardware

TON Pay launches SDK to embed crypto payments inside Telegram

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Consumer Tech & Hardware

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 & Hardware

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

Roblox opens 4D creation tools to creators in open beta

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

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

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Consumer Tech & Hardware

Gizmo transforms short-form feeds into playable micro-apps

Gizmo is a mobile app from Atma Sciences that converts simple text prompts into tiny, interactive applications presented in a vertical feed, shifting consumption toward play rather than passive viewing. Rapid early uptake — roughly 600,000 installs and triple-digit month-over-month growth in recent months — suggests demand for prompt-driven, no-code micro-app creation, though safety, moderation and long-term monetization remain open questions.

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

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

Nintendo says the Switch family has exceeded 155 million units sold, making it the company’s best‑selling console and placing it just behind the PlayStation 2 globally. The milestone came alongside an earnings update that surprised markets — revenue lagged expectations despite rising profits — and management warned of surging DRAM costs and softer software momentum, sending the stock sharply lower.

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

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

A teardown of Google’s beta app indicates Gemini may gain an opt‑in ability to automate interactions inside third‑party Android apps—simulating taps and form fills to complete tasks like ordering food or hailing rides—backed by platform hooks, certified app support and human review of some interaction traces. The feature is drawing regulatory and legislative attention (including a letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren about in‑chat commerce), raising fresh questions about merchant signals, data flows, payment safeguards and the need for clear consent and disclosure.

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Jonathan Nolan on AI, Hollywood economics, and adapting Fallout

Jonathan Nolan on AI, Hollywood economics, and adapting Fallout

Jonathan Nolan maps how generative AI is reshaping storytelling, access to filmmaking, and the risks to cultural trust, while defending traditional production practices and film as a collaborative craft. He frames current AI advances as both genuinely transformative and overhyped, urging visible safeguards for synthetic media and preserving incentives that sustain high-end production.

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Analysts Seek Clarity on Apple’s Gemini-Siri Deal as Alphabet Reports Earnings

Analysts Seek Clarity on Apple’s Gemini-Siri Deal as Alphabet Reports Earnings

Investors will watch Alphabet’s earnings call for specifics on the agreement to integrate Google’s Gemini into Apple’s Siri — not just dollars but how compute, telemetry and routing are handled. The discussion comes amid a broader earnings season where markets are pressing hyperscalers to link heavy AI capex and supply‑chain buildouts to clear revenue paths and margins.

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Adobe retires Animate as it pivots creative tooling toward AI (U.S.)

Adobe retires Animate as it pivots creative tooling toward AI (U.S.)

Adobe will discontinue Animate on March 1, 2026, with staggered support windows for non-enterprise and enterprise customers. The move underscores Adobe’s broader strategy to concentrate creative features into AI-enabled products while raising preservation challenges for legacy Flash-era content.

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Anthropic study finds chatbots can erode user decision-making — United States
Consumer Tech & Hardware

Anthropic study finds chatbots can erode user decision-making — United States

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Sony patents a button-free gamepad concept in US showing touch and gesture controls
Consumer Tech & Hardware

Sony patents a button-free gamepad concept in US showing touch and gesture controls

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Consumer Tech & Hardware

Vitalik Buterin outlines DAO-driven creator token model to elevate content quality (Global)

Vitalik Buterin proposed pairing curated creator DAOs with prediction-market incentives so communities can vet creators while speculators surface promising talent; endorsed creators would gain economic upside via supply-management actions like token burns. He situates this design inside broader DAO infrastructure work — stronger oracles, privacy protections (notably ZK techniques), dispute-resolution primitives and governance UX — that would be necessary to make such markets secure and scalable.

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Consumer Tech & Hardware

U.S. esports hardware shifts as magnetic 'rapid trigger' keyboards outpace mechanical switches

Competitive players are switching from traditional mechanical switches to magnetic Hall-effect keyboards that register presses via sensors and magnets, enabling near-instant reset and new input tricks. Major brands and new entrants are shipping affordable Rapid Trigger-ready boards and accessories, changing both pro play and the consumer market.

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Mozilla adds user controls to turn off Firefox’s built‑in AI features
Consumer Tech & Hardware

Mozilla adds user controls to turn off Firefox’s built‑in AI features

Mozilla will add a centralized setting to Firefox on February 24 that lets users disable individual AI features or switch off all AI functionality. The move aims to address user concerns about unsolicited AI behavior while allowing the company to continue developing assistant and summarization tools.

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Apple’s CarPlay Ultra Poised to Reach South Korea’s Hyundai and Kia

Apple’s CarPlay Ultra Poised to Reach South Korea’s Hyundai and Kia

Apple’s premium in-car interface, CarPlay Ultra, which has so far been limited to very expensive vehicles, is reportedly headed to at least one high-volume Hyundai or Kia model later this year. Broader availability would test Apple’s ability to scale a deeply customized cockpit experience and could reshape how manufacturers balance native systems against third‑party software.

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South Korea team unveils ~1,700 PPI micro‑LED advance aimed at crisper smartglasses
Consumer Tech & Hardware

South Korea team unveils ~1,700 PPI micro‑LED advance aimed at crisper smartglasses

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Hyundai and Kia Debut Vision Pulse — UWB-Based System That Maps Nearby Objects with Centimeter Precision
Consumer Tech & Hardware

Hyundai and Kia Debut Vision Pulse — UWB-Based System That Maps Nearby Objects with Centimeter Precision

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Consumer Tech & Hardware

Ultra-thin flexible AI chip aims to untether wearables from phones

Researchers in China have created a bendable AI processor built on a thin polymer film that can run health and activity models on-device. Early tests show high accuracy, extreme mechanical durability, and very low power use, pointing toward cheaper, phone-free wearable devices.

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