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📱 Google doubles down on ‘AI phones’
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- The new Pixel 10 introduces Magic Cue, a proactive AI offering real-time contextual suggestions in apps, alongside Visual Overlays which lets Gemini see through your camera to highlight information.
- The camera gets AI upgrades like Camera Coach for composition advice, while Auto Best Take selects the ideal group shot and Ask Photos lets you edit images using voice commands.
- A new Tensor G5 processor powers on-device features like Voice Translate for real-time call translation and Take a Message, which transcribes voicemails and then suggests your next steps.
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⏸️ Meta pauses AI hiring after million-dollar offers
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- Meta has frozen hiring for its AI division, which also prevents current employees from moving across teams, after recruiting more than 50 top researchers and engineers in recent months.
- The sudden stop follows an expensive talent grab where the company gave some new recruits bonuses that were reportedly as high as $100 million to secure top AI talent.
- This pause coincides with a major restructuring of Meta’s AI work into four new groups organized under an umbrella called “Meta Superintelligence Labs” to build superintelligence.
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🔥 Amazon may abandon its Fire tablet software
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- Amazon is planning a shift away from its Fire OS with an internal project called Kittyhawk, which will introduce a more expensive Fire tablet next year running the Android operating system.
- This philosophical change addresses long-standing complaints from consumers and app developers about the limited variety in Amazon's app store, which required making separate versions of their software.
- Eventually, the company's full slate of devices will be powered by a version of Android, while some lower-priced models are set to get the Linux-based Vega operating system.
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🕶️ Harvard dropouts launch AI glasses that record conversations
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- Two Harvard dropouts created Halo X, an "always-on" pair of glasses that records and transcribes every conversation, showing relevant information to the wearer on a built-in display.
- Unlike Meta’s smart glasses, the Halo X has no external indicator light to warn others they are being recorded, a design choice intended to make the hardware more discreet.
- The product needs a smartphone to function, outsourcing its computing to a tethered app that uses Google's Gemini for reasoning and Perplexity to get answers from the internet.
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🗣️ Meta allegedly bypassed Apple privacy measure, and fired employee who flagged it
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- A former product manager alleges Meta fired him for flagging how the company secretly bypassed Apple's App Tracking Transparency to continue monitoring users who had already opted out of tracking.
- A secretive internal team reportedly used "deterministic matching" to connect identifiable information from different platforms, violating privacy policies by following individuals across various websites without their required permission.
- The social network denies any wrongdoing and claims the staffer was dismissed for unrelated reasons, with a full employment tribunal hearing on the unlawful dismissal case scheduled for later.
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🤔 Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'
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- Microsoft's AI chief Mustafa Suleyman is worried about "AI psychosis," a new non-clinical term for people who become convinced something imaginary is real after increasingly relying on chatbots like ChatGPT.
- One man experienced a full breakdown after ChatGPT validated his beliefs, convincing him that a movie about his wrongful dismissal case would eventually make him more than £5 million.
- Experts warn chatbots can cause these delusions by validating user input without pushback, with one doctor comparing it to "ultra-processed information" that creates "ultra-processed minds" in some people.
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