Alex Heath

Zuckerberg just pulled a pair out of a suitcase brought out to him onstage at Meta Connect . He calls them “our first fully functional prototype” and the “most advanced AR glasses the world has ever seen.”

We're in the developer-focused section of Meta's Connect keynote. CTO Andrew Bosworth is onstage and starts with an apology: “We have not made it easy to develop for our platforms.

“If there’s a part of your body that could potentially host a wearable that could do AI, there’s a good chance we’ve had a team run that down.”

photo of Facebook put us out there image Image: Kristen Radtke / The Verge In February 2004, a 19-year-old, flip-flop-wearing Mark Zuckerberg released an online directory of Harvard students. In those days, the internet still felt small. It was mostly about finding webpages, not people. It turned out that the internet was very good for connecting…

An interesting look at how Snap has diverted from other platforms in its handling of former President Trump:

Google is all in on Gemini as the future.

December is shaping up to be a month of dueling AI announcements from OpenAI and Google.

I reported last week that Google is aiming to release its next big Gemini AI model in December. On the company's earnings call today , CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that it's coming:

Meta's X.com competitor now has 275 million monthly users, up from 200 million in August , according to Mark Zuckerberg.

Musk told employees that “someone’s entire financial life” will be able to run on X by the end of 2024.