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Victoria Song
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Senior reviewer and author of the Optimizer newsletter for The Verge. I write about wearables, health tech, the wellness wild west, and other gadgets. Previously: Gizmodo, PCMag, Yomiuri Shimbun.
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Grand poobah of the penguin brigade.
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axios.com
We can’t just change the definition of ‘recording’ theverge.com
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 dives deeper into AI and health theverge.com
Can you forget how you feel about Meta? tinyurl.com
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute tinyurl.com
Can you forget how you feel about Meta? theverge.com
It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute theverge.com
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Tech companies with new AI hardware want you to agree that always-listening, often-recapping devices don’t count as recording. Read more from @vicmsong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/column/10056...
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- Apple is developing a smart home camera that uses AI to turn visual data into text snippets instead of saving video, per Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
- Apple Watch Series 12 ships Audio Intelligence features Live Rewind (transcripts of the past 15 seconds) and Siri Recap (daily conversation summaries), which Apple says do not record audio.
- Google wearables lead Sandeep Waraich has pitched smart-glasses cameras that process visual data via AI but save no footage, framing cameras as mere image sensors.
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Here’s a first look at the Pixel Watch 5 — if last year revamped the hardware, this year is a deeper dive into health and software. www.theverge.com/tech/978094/...
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Well, it took 17 hours to get to SF for Meta Connect so y’all can have this story I wrote with @miasato.bsky.social @haydenfield.bsky.social and @laurenfeiner.bsky.social, as a treat. tinyurl.com/yu6jcy9b
This week in Optimizer, a Meta Connect themed issue. Would a spoonful of kawaii cute help the AI pill go down? Maybe not fully but perhaps you might feel less alarmed if Jolly — the aptly named Muse AI mascot — was the one asking for your health data. tinyurl.com/ba5jf9a4
Well, it took 17 hours to get to SF for Meta Connect so y’all can have this story I wrote with @miasato.bsky.social @haydenfield.bsky.social and @laurenfeiner.bsky.social, as a treat. tinyurl.com/yu6jcy9b
This week in Optimizer, a Meta Connect themed issue. Would a spoonful of kawaii cute help the AI pill go down? Maybe not fully but perhaps you might feel less alarmed if Jolly — the aptly named Muse AI mascot — was the one asking for your health data. tinyurl.com/ba5jf9a4
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It's been over 24 hours so I can say this now. The absolute last place that any AI should be deployed is fielding angry calls when your flight is cancelled. Did I, at some point Monday, scream into my phone at Newark "SHUT UP YOU STUPID AI AND GIVE ME A HUMAN, A HUMAN!!!!" Yes.
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