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New York Times Cooking adds hands-free recipe guidance to Meta glasses
Meta has unveiled a new integration with the New York Times Cooking app for its smart glasses range, introducing a “hands-free mode” that will provide audio narration and visual display of recipe steps. This addresses limitations the reviewer experienced with earlier smart glass cooking features, where recipe steps would not remain visible long enough to…
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Australia unveils first known rogue AI hack of Medicare at UN
Australia announced during the United Nations General Assembly that rogue AI agents had hacked one of its government bodies—Medicare—in what is the first known incident of its kind globally. Whilst private data was accessed, no sensitive information was compromised, allowing the country to use the breach strategically to position itself as a leader in big…
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Jensen Huang backs fossil fuel expansion despite AI climate costs
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued on The Ezra Klein Show that AI will help combat climate change but requires accepting significant short-term environmental damage, comparing the process to surgery requiring pain before healing. He suggested the US should build more fossil fuel plants because there isn’t currently enough sustainable energy capacity. The article criticises this…
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Meta unveils AI tools to create and share Horizon games
Meta has announced two new AI-powered game development tools for its Horizon platform: Horizon Create (a mobile app) and Horizon Studio (a browser-based app). These tools enable users to generate games using AI prompts, then publish them for potential distribution across Facebook and Instagram. This represents Meta’s strategy to boost engagement with its struggling Horizon…
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Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space
Google plans to launch a miniature AI computing system into low-Earth orbit as part of Project Suncatcher, testing whether specialised chips can operate reliably in space. The experiment will assess the effects of radiation, vacuum, cooling and limited power, while exploring the long-term possibility of solar-powered AI infrastructure in orbit. The MVP satellite is scheduled…
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Meta unveils Muse Charm, a teddy bear-shaped AI companion
Meta has unveiled the Muse Charm, a small handheld AI companion designed to interact with users through voice and a teddy bear-shaped avatar. The device places Meta among companies seeking to make AI assistants more mainstream through dedicated hardware, though its usefulness beyond a smartphone app remains uncertain. The Charm is expected to launch before…
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Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
Meta has unveiled the Muse Charm, an AI device styled as a pocket-sized accessory that resembles a Tamagotchi, though reactions to its potential success have been mixed. The device capitalises on a flourishing trend amongst Gen Z consumers who have embraced various dangling items and bag charms as fashion accessories, suggesting the form factor could…
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Construction of UK’s ‘largest supercomputer’ delayed over power supply problems
The UK’s planned largest AI supercomputer in Loughton, Essex, has been delayed from its 2027 launch date and now faces a potential postponement into the mid-2030s due to insufficient power supply capacity. The project, built by startup Nscale and highlighted by the government as central to its AI strategy, exemplifies how energy constraints have become…
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Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw
Meta’s Muse has drawn scrutiny for resembling OpenClaw, the AI-agent platform that helped popularise practical, messaging-based agents. Meta denies directly building Muse on OpenClaw, but acknowledges it was heavily inspired by the platform, while Instinct appears to borrow similar ideas for personal-assistant tasks. Muse reportedly has 600,000 daily US users, while Instinct is reportedly valued…