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Meta's new smart glasses look like the future
The Verge's Alex Heath joins Nilay, Alex, and David to talk about all the announcements coming out of Meta Connect: the impressive (and expensive) Orion glasses, the new features for the Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, and lots and lots of new AI. Then they discuss the latest executive departures at OpenAI, as the industry's foremost AI company undergoes a huge shift. In the lightning round, it's time for more AI gadgets, the PS5 Pro... and then some more AI gadgets.
Further reading:
- Meta Connect 2024: biggest news and announcements
- Hands-on with Orion, Meta’s first pair of AR glasses
- Meta’s Ray-Bans will now ‘remember’ things for you
- Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks AR glasses will replace your phone
- Meta’s VR app store is about to fill up with phone-style 2D apps
- Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI
- Meta’s AI can now talk to you in the voices of Awkwafina, John Cena, and Judi Dench
- Kristen Bell told Instagram to ‘get rid of AI’ before she became its official voice
- OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is leaving
- Just 5,000 people use the Rabbit R1 every day
- Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 review: big upgrade, much smaller earbuds
- I played the PS5 Pro, and it’s clearly better
- Inside Jony Ive’s Life After Apple and His LoveFrom Design Business
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