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Meta adds camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio alongside camera-equipped Gen 3
Meta's $349 Ray-Ban Audio glasses are open for preorder and omit the camera. Its $449 Gen 3 is available now with camera-based AI; Muse integration remains forthcoming.
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Altman and Amodei ask UN Security Council for AI safety standards
OpenAI and Anthropic's chiefs proposed AI testing, incident reporting and international cooperation at a Security Council briefing. The transcript records no new Council rule.
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PrimeBOT T1 starts at about US$2,980 in China, with October shipments promised
PrimeBOT has announced a Chinese T1 price equivalent to about US$2,980 and October shipments. What the robot has shown, and what its factory numbers have yet to prove.
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YouTube’s creator AI can review drafts now. Conversational editing waits until 2027
YouTube's September creator announcements span tools you can use now and others still rolling out. Here's how draft feedback, thumbnail tests and future editing differ.
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Google CC turns a personal agent into a shared household coordinator
Google CC adds shared household planning with member-selected inputs.
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Claude Opus 5.5 cuts API prices and brings migration changes
Anthropic's Opus 5.5 lowers token prices and targets supervised enterprise work below Fable 5.1, while API clients face breaking thinking and tool changes, plus conditional fallback.
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FireSat's first operational images show what AI can change in wildfire detection
New satellite imagery offers a concrete look at AI-assisted fire monitoring. Routine delivery and evidence of benefits on the ground are the next tests.
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Claude Docs brings AI into the shared document, with business limits still to check
Anthropic's new document workflow brings drafting and collaboration together. Businesses still need to check rollout, permissions and the cost of review.
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A new AI language coalition sets a five-year goal for 3.4 billion people
A new language-access effort raises a practical question: can AI complete useful tasks for people whose speech it has struggled to understand?