Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028
Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028

“Some of the companies at the forefront of AI are telling Qualcomm, ‘By 2028, I need to make sure that I have the ability to run at least a hundred billion parameter model into a phone.’” Qualcomm chief executive Cristiano Amon said this on Sources, Al…

Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses
Dutch eyewear chain Hans Anders stops selling Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses

Hans Anders, one of the largest Dutch eyewear chains, has stopped selling Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in the Netherlands and Belgium. The chain told Reuters on Friday that privacy concerns were behind the move. Dutch online retailer Wehkamp has also p…

Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports
Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports

Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, includi…

Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance
Qualcomm launches AI earbud chip, glasses platforms and a health alliance

Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Zi…

Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera
Meta shipped 81% of the world’s AI glasses, and the runner-up has no camera

As scrutiny of camera-equipped AI glasses intensifies, tighter privacy settings and clearer messaging will not be enough. Jason Low, research director at Omdia, said that on Tuesday. The research firm had just published its count of the AI glasses mark…

Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses
Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses

Smart glasses may look cool but there’s absolutely no place in our schools or classrooms for them. Sabine Winton said that on Tuesday. Western Australia’s education minister was announcing what she called the country’s most comprehensive ban on the dev…

Meta plans camera-free smart glasses this autumn, The Information reports
Meta plans camera-free smart glasses this autumn, The Information reports

“We as a society have the right to at least know that someone is recording,” Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski told Business Insider about his ZuckOff app, which detects nearby smart glasses. Meta now plans to release a pair of smart glasses with no ca…

China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.
China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.

Alibaba put its Qoder coding agent into smart glasses on 3 September, and Tencent put its WorkBuddy office agent into co-branded Rokid frames the day before. China’s smart glasses code of conduct, a voluntary convention issued in June, asks manufacture…

Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses
Cinemas, schools and ICE are all banning Meta smart glasses

Cinemas became the latest institution to move against Meta smart glasses on Thursday. The UK Cinema Association said many operators are introducing policies to restrict camera-enabled eyewear. It gave two reasons: film piracy, and customer privacy. Tak…

Instagram blocked the search terms. Its algorithm serves the videos anyway
Instagram blocked the search terms. Its algorithm serves the videos anyway

The genre is simple enough to describe. A man wearing camera glasses walks up to a woman in the street. He delivers a line and films her reaction without asking. The clip goes to Instagram, tagged as shot on Meta glasses. The woman is now content. Some…