NYTIMES (Eli Tan and Hamed Aleaziz) - ICE Bars Its Workers From Wearing Meta’s Smart Glasses on the Job
The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta’s devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.
NYTIMES (Simar Bajaj) - The Wearable Data Your Doctor Actually Wants
Wearables can offer rough information about a person’s health, experts say, but only some metrics are medically useful.
YOUTUBE (NewsNation) - Blind veterans to receive free Meta AI glasses
Meta is teaming up with the Blinded Veterans Association to give free Meta AI glasses to 130,000 blind vets. Lea Rowe, the national executive director of the BVA, tells NewsNation she has seen a profound interest among the veterans in the organization, as it gives independence back to them. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live with Marni Hughes." Weekdays starting at 9a/8C.#NewsNationLive NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Google reinvents search before AI rivals replace it
Google is reinventing the product that made it one of the richest companies in history: search. Why it matters: Search is the cash cow that funds Google's sprawling empire. But it faces an existential threat from AI chatbots, so the company is moving proactively to upend its own core business before someone else does. - It's also an acknowledgment that describing what you're looking for in conversational language is a better way to find information than guessing the right keywords. Driving the news: In what it billed as the biggest change to the search box since its debut, Google announced Tuesday that it is allowing the box to expand for longer queries and chat-style exchanges. - Google has been headed in this direction for a while.…
NPR (Allison Aubrey) - Got wearable data? Your doctor can help you connect the dots
The American Academy of Neurology issued guidance on using wearable data devices, like smart watches or Oura rings, to track key health metrics that can help flag serious conditions.
NYTIMES (Sam Anderson) - I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses
Plenty of people hate Mark Zuckerberg’s superintelligent, supercharged spectacles. I was ready to hate them, too.