Report: AI Smart Glasses Market Set to Surge in 2026
Smart Analytics Global forecasts the AI smart glasses market will quadruple in 2026, driven by Ray-Ban Meta and anticipated entries from Apple and Samsung, with revenue hitting $5.6 billion.
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Smart Analytics Global forecasts the AI smart glasses market will quadruple in 2026, driven by Ray-Ban Meta and anticipated entries from Apple and Samsung, with revenue hitting $5.6 billion.
AI-native biotech Proxima raised $80 million in an oversubscribed seed round to develop proximity-based therapeutics. The funding supports AI-driven discovery for previously “undruggable” targets across oncology and immunology.
Salesforce introduced a next-generation AI version of Slackbot for Business+ and Enterprise+ customers. The agent can draft emails, schedule meetings, and connect across enterprise apps.
Brazil’s competition authority ordered WhatsApp to suspend its policy banning third-party AI chatbots on its business API. The move follows concerns the policy may favor Meta AI over competitors.
Meta plans to lay off roughly 10% of its Reality Labs team, reflecting a shift in focus from metaverse projects to artificial intelligence. The move coincides with broader AI infrastructure investments.
Meta has introduced a new top-level initiative, Meta Compute, to expand its AI infrastructure and energy capacity at large scale. The effort signals a long-term push to support advanced AI development and global data center growth.
Anthropic’s Claude now offers healthcare and life sciences AI tools, including HIPAA-compliant connectors and support for clinical trials, regulatory, and research tasks.
NVIDIA and Eli Lilly are creating a $1 billion AI co-innovation lab to accelerate drug discovery. The lab will integrate AI, biomedical data, and robotics to transform medicine development.
Apple will rely on Google’s Gemini models and cloud infrastructure to power future artificial intelligence features, including Siri. The multi-year partnership supports Apple’s next generation of foundation models.
French defense technology startup Harmattan AI raised a $200 million Series B led by Dassault Aviation, lifting its valuation to $1.4 billion. The funding deepens a partnership focused on embedded AI for military aircraft and drones.
PlusAI will begin Southern Europe’s first heavy-duty autonomous truck testing program with Iveco in Spain. The project supports the company’s expansion in Europe ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing.
Indonesia and Malaysia have imposed temporary bans on xAI’s Grok chatbot following a flood of sexualized, AI-generated imagery on X, intensifying global regulatory pressure on generative AI platforms.
Walmart and Google are launching a new shopping experience inside Gemini, combining Google’s AI with Walmart and Sam’s Club’s vast assortment, fast delivery, and personalized commerce powered by the Universal Commerce Protocol.
Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard for agentic commerce, enabling AI-driven shopping, checkout, and branded agent interactions across retailers and platforms.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is set to release its next-generation V4 model in mid-February, featuring enhanced coding capabilities and support for long-form programming tasks.