Norway Weighs Facial Recognition Ban for “Pervert Glasses”
Norway plans to regulate camera-equipped smart glasses more strictly, floating a ban on public facial recognition, though critics say it wouldn't stop covert filming.
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Meta Brings Its AI to Mac With a New App Built for Small Business Owners
Meta launched a Mac app for Meta AI with screen sharing and Google Workspace access, aimed at creators and small businesses running campaigns on Facebook and...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens With Stronger Safeguards
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a version with default safety protections, learning tools and parental controls, automatically applied to users it identifies as under 18.
Meta Launches Muse Glimmer, a 30B AI Model That Runs on One GPU
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built for local AI agents, coding, tool use, and multimodal tasks on a single consumer GPU or...
Mark Zuckerberg Says Everyone Will Get a Personal AI Agent
Mark Zuckerberg says personal superintelligence could give every person an AI agent that understands their goals, context, preferences, and values while helping create new businesses, skills,...
OpenAI Makes GPT-5.6 Luna Free with Unlimited ChatGPT Text Chats
OpenAI is replacing GPT-5.5 Instant with GPT-5.6 Luna for Free and Go users, then removing text-chat limits and adding a Think button for harder questions.
OpenAI Launches Codex Micro, a $230 Keypad for Coders
OpenAI launched Codex Micro, a $230 mechanical keypad built with Work Louder that gives developers physical controls for its Codex coding agent, its first hardware to...
OpenAI’s First Device Is a Screenless AI Companion Speaker
OpenAI's first hardware, reportedly designed with Jony Ive, is a portable, screenless smart speaker built as a proactive AI companion that learns its owner and moves...
OpenAI Tells Developers to Stop Over-Prompting GPT-5.6
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 prompting guide urges developers to write shorter, outcome-first prompts, saying leaner instructions raised scores 10-15% while cutting tokens and cost sharply.
Google Trains Health AI on a Trillion Minutes of Wearable Data
Google unveiled SensorFM, a health AI trained on over a trillion minutes of smartwatch data from 5 million people, that predicts 35 health measures from cardiovascular...