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Meta's AI Pendant Leak Proves Nobody Knows Where Wearable AI Belongs

After selling millions of smart glasses, Meta's leaked AI pendant plans to hang a microphone around your neck, a category the Humane AI Pin already revealed answers a question nobody is asking.

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Meta's new self-branded smart glasses, released June 2026 at $299, shown in three frame styles on a white background. Exclusive wired.com

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Armada co-founders Dan Wright and John Runyan standing beside one of the company's portable modular data centre units. hardware

Modular Data Centers Go Mainstream as Armada Raises $230M

The San Francisco startup is building an Arizona factory with Johnson Controls to produce portable AI infrastructure, as Dell'Oro data shows capex shifting to prefabricated and edge deployments.

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The lonely, expensive, occasionally beautiful work of building a foundation model from scratch in 2026

Three years ago, Reka was a cautionary tale. Then its founders did the unfashionable thing: they kept going. A profile of the team that nobody bet on, and the model the industry won't stop talking about.

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Big Tech Earnings Tested by $725 Billion AI Capex Splurge

Hyperscaler capex has now eclipsed revenue beats as the main driver of quarterly earnings reactions, forcing investors to price the widening gap between AI infrastructure outlays and their uncertain returns.

Big Tech's $750 Billion AI Capex Redraws the Earnings Cycle

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, the four hyperscalers, reported Q1 earnings that point to a collective capex of nearly $750 billion, yet the market reaction split sharply, revealing a deep tension between growth investment and free cash flow.

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