Snap representatives have said the Specs “do not record the world to understand it,” noting that the glasses do not use facial recognition to identify people. WIRED found code in Meta’s apps earlier this year indicating the company was experimenting with a facial recognition feature on its smart glasses,... Read more

Google told Google Home customers and developers on Wednesday that it would add smart home support for other AI agents beyond its own Gemini AI. The company’s announcement says that “any agent that supports calling tools can now interact with all of the devices and... Read more

Around this time of year, new products launch left and right. I wrote similar words just yesterday ahead of Boox launching its latest devices. And now, Dyson, one of the big names in vacuum cleaners, just launched three innovative products. Dyson already announced several new products earlier in September,... Read more

The U.S. Senate rejected a procedural motion needed to advance the CLARITY Act on Tuesday, blocking legislation that tribal-gaming operators and lawmakers said was a crucial step toward stopping prediction-market companies from offering sports-event contracts outside state and tribal gaming systems. Senators voted 49-50 against cloture, falling well short... Read more

OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI misalignment incidents, which the company says it hopes will help inform similar standards across the industry. The company is also releasing new information about several examples of AI model misalignment it identified in the past year.... Read more

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The California Nations Indian Gaming Association urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, not to bring up the CLARITY Act on Tuesday unless the bill closes what the group calls a prediction-market loophole and preserves federal, state, and tribal gaming law.... Read more

Microsoft continues to modify its Xbox Game Pass service as the company tries to get a handle on how expensive it is. The company said that in November it will eliminate the unlimited cloud gaming perk that comes with a subscription and instead limit the number of hours based... Read more

Fast-casual burrito chain Chipotle is working with the data infrastructure giant Palantir. The company is working on a “food safety risk platform” hosted on Palantir’s flagship software platform Foundry, according to screenshots viewed by WIRED. The platform appears to analyze factors like a store’s health department scores, pest incidents,... Read more

Lead The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee heard testimony Tuesday on whether online prediction markets such as Kalshi should be treated as federally regulated financial exchanges or as gambling platforms subject to state oversight and restrictions. The hearing documented a continuing policy debate over how Texas might address the... Read more