Ray-Ban Meta Audio arrives
Meta says Ray-Ban Meta Audio is now on sale starting at $349. The glasses combine open-ear audio, calls, music, and Meta AI in frames available with prescription lenses.
Meta claims up to 12 hours per charge or six hours of continuous audio, plus up to 48 additional hours from the case. The glasses weigh 43 grams and come in Clubmaster and Burbank styles.
Microsoft expands its AI infrastructure
Microsoft says Maia 200, its system for running AI models, is serving production workloads including Microsoft Copilot. GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry are planned to follow by year-end.
The next system, Maia 300, is designed for long-context reasoning, conversational responses, and multi-step agents. Microsoft says production deployments will begin in 2027, when it also plans to start scaling the Maia family to multi-gigawatt deployments.
Character.AI faces an uncertain future
TechCrunch reports that Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The service lets people create AI characters and chat with them.
The company plans to keep operating during a sale process expected to close in late November or early December. TechCrunch reports that there is not yet a buyer and the platform could be wound down if no workable bid emerges.
Also
- Work archives become AI training data MIT Technology Review examines sales of failed startups’ code and workspace data, alongside concerns about consent, privacy, and who receives the proceeds.
- Teach Copilot your repository rules GitHub explains how instructions, reusable skills, specialized agents, and external tools can give Copilot project-specific context.
- Edit remote project files from a phone Simon Willison built web-edit so his phone can connect directly to a file editor over a network linking his devices, without routing credentials through the model.
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