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Meta Unveils 3 Smart Glasses With Built-In A.I.

New York Times — Tech · · International · AI Governance

Meta announced three new smart glasses models with built-in artificial intelligence at its annual developer conference. The announcement was central to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's pitch that AI can expand what people are able to do.

Why this matters: Smart glasses are different from a phone app. They sit on your face, point a camera at the world, and now they think. That changes what passive data collection looks like. Anyone near you becomes part of what the device can see and process, without opting in. Meta has a long record of collecting more than people expect. Putting AI into wearables that go everywhere you go is worth watching closely, especially as the rules around what these devices can record remain thin.

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