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These Oakley Meta Vanguard smart glasses are perfect for cyclists, runners, and T-ball coaches

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You may look ridiculous, but the feature set is perfect for gadget nerds who love the outdoors.

Victoria Song
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me

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This very first-gen device raises several questions about where the next chapter of mobile computing is headed.

Victoria Song
Meta is building a smart TV — in VRMeta is building a smart TV — in VR
Janko Roettgers
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Apple’s AI search head jumps ship.

Bloomberg reports that Ke Yang, only just promoted to head of the team, is leaving for Meta. He was tasked with building a Siri search tool to rival ChatGPT and Gemini, and is one of a dozen or so prominent AI departures for Apple this year.

Threads now has group chatsThreads now has group chats
Jess Weatherbed
Facebook is adding job listings, againFacebook is adding job listings, again
Allison Johnson
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Meta poached Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch.

Tulloch helped launch Thinking Machines with Mira Murati, who famously left OpenAI to start her own company. Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to buy Thinking Machines and other AI companies have been a pretty open secret. While the big swings to buy companies like Perplexity have fallen short, he has managed to steal away some high profile talent from rivals.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta wants devs to speed up metaverse building with AI.

In an internal message seen by 404 Media, Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of metaverse, tells workers to use AI to build products five times faster:

Imagine a world where anyone can rapidly prototype an idea, and feedback loops are measured in hours — not weeks. That’s the future we’re building.

Shah told Lowpass this week about Meta’s push to expand the metaverse to more places, like your Instagram feed.