Hayden Field / CNBC:
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company after six and a half years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration” — OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said Wednesday she is leaving the company after six and a half years.
Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors (Alex Heath/The Verge)
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta unveils a prototype of Orion, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors — Orion is an impressive demo of AR glasses, but can Mark Zuckerberg beat everyone else to the next big platform?
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta’s Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more (The Verge)
The Verge:
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on Meta’s Orion AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, Threads, X, downranking political content, mental health, AI regulation, and more — Meta’s CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he’s done with politics, and more.
Hands-on with Meta’s Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses (Scott Stein/CNET)
Scott Stein / CNET:
Hands-on with Meta’s Orion: need a wireless processor puck, weigh only 100g, are packed with sensors, and have good eye tracking and a wide FoV for AR glasses — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls them “The most advanced glasses the world has ever seen.” — I wore Mark Zuckerberg’s contact lenses.
Disney officially launches its password-sharing crackdown, letting users add an “Extra Member” for $6.99/month for Disney+ Basic, or $9.99 for Disney+ Premium (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney officially launches its password-sharing crackdown, letting users add an “Extra Member” for $6.99/month for Disney+ Basic, or $9.99 for Disney+ Premium — The company rolled out what it is calling its paid sharing policy this week, letting users add a member outside their household …
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will likely strike “certain partnerships” for AI training content, but some publishers may be overestimating their content’s value (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will likely strike “certain partnerships” for AI training content, but some publishers may be overestimating their content’s value — ‘If they demanded that we don’t use their content, then we just wouldn’t use their content.’
Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Meta discontinues the Quest 2, which debuted nearly four years ago, and Quest Pro, which debuted in 2022 — Hidden among the Meta Connect 2024 hardware announcements comes word that the social media giant is sunsetting two key members of its Quest VR headset line.
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta debuts Quest 3S, larger and with lower-resolution displays than Quest 3 but with better battery and the same chip and controllers, coming Oct. 15 for $300+ — Meta finally announced the very heavily leaked Quest 3S VR headset, and the leaks were right: it’s a $299.99 headset that looks like a mix of the Quest 2 and Quest 3.
Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta says Meta AI can now respond back to questions out loud with celebrity voices and is piloting a tool to automatically translate voices in Instagram Reels — Meta’s AI assistant, Meta AI, is getting a new voice mode of sorts. — At the Meta Connect 2024 developer conference in Menlo Park …
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones (David Lumb/CNET)
David Lumb / CNET:
Meta unveils 11B- and 90B-parameter Llama 3.2 models with multimodal image support and small 1B and 3B models, which Arm partnered on, meant to run on phones — The new models are small enough to assist in tasks on people’s phones… and potentially smaller accessories, too.
