Alongside news of its new AI-focused subscription plans, Meta announced on Tuesday that it will now allow AI agents of your choosing to set up and manage WhatsApp Business messaging, the service that allows companies to connect with customers through WhatsApp conversations. As Meta explains, this process was previously a bit more cumbersome, as it
Mark Cuban says the greater threat to humanity isn’t an AI apocalypse, but how people might react to doomsday warnings. The tech billionaire wrote late Monday on X that he sees a “far greater risk from what humans do in response to what they see on social media, than what agent swarms will do.” Cuban
Travis Kalanick’s new robotics startup, Atoms, has scooped up a high-profile hire. Vikas Chandra, a longtime Meta AI executive who led AI work for the company’s smart glasses, announced Monday that he is joining the startup as vice president of AI. At Atoms, Chandra said he will build “foundation models for the physical world” —
Just a couple of weeks before Meta Connect starts on September 23rd, UploadVR posted images seemingly revealing the design for Meta’s “Project Phoenix” headset. The images, which UploadVR says were “found in the HorizonOS Prescription Lens firmware package,” suggest Meta may be looking to compete with devices like those from Xreal or Viture. These companies’
Pawel Szydlowski was spooked after he saw videos of people using smart glasses to record and identify unsuspecting strangers. So the 30-year-old Polish software developer created an app that he says can detect nearby smart glasses and estimate their distance. “There’s a need for such an application,” he told Business Insider. The app, which Szydlowski
Anthropic posted — and then deleted — a job listing for a salesperson tasked with selling to Meta, its AI rival and one of its largest customers. The listing, titled “Mega Account Executive, Meta,” appeared on Anthropic’s job board at a delicate moment for the companies’ relationship. Meta still spends hundreds of millions of dollars
