Google is bringing smart glasses back into the spotlight with a new generation of AI-powered eyewear built around Gemini and Android XR. At Google I/O 2026, the company showed how its upcoming intelligent eyewear could make everyday tasks more hands-free, combining voice assistance, real-time information, navigation, translation, photo capture, and phone-connected apps into one wearable device. While Google’s first attempt with Google Glass became known for privacy concerns a

Apple is entering a major new chapter. After 15 years as CEO, Tim Cook will step down later this year, and longtime Apple executive John Ternus will take over on September 1. The change is not just a routine leadership handoff. It reflects a pivotal moment for Apple as artificial intelligence becomes one of the biggest forces shaping the future of technology. For a company built on defining major product categories, the pressure is now on to show what its AI era will look lik

Yann LeCun’s new startup, AMI Labs, has quickly become one of the most closely watched AI ventures of 2026 after raising an enormous $1.03 billion seed round at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. Based in Paris, the company, whose full name is Advanced Machine Intelligence, is pursuing a very different direction from the large language model boom that has defined much of the current AI industry. Rather than concentrating on systems trained mainly on text, AMI Labs wants to b

Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses promise a futuristic convenience: hands-free recording paired with an AI assistant that can interpret what you see and hear. But recent reporting suggests that convenience can come with a troubling tradeoff, raising fresh questions about consent, transparency, and who may access the footage these devices capture. In the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) says it will write to Meta after a “concerning” investigation alleged that outsou