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Metaâs getting serious with AR, rolling out their Ray-Ban Display smart glasses that come with a wristband for gesture controls. This move is a clear sign theyâre not just dreaming about AI living in your phone but in your everyday eyewear, which could change how we interact with digital info. Meanwhile, Nvidia might drop a cool $500 million on the UKâs Wayve, aiming to deepen its footprint in the self-driving car space, which ties into the bigger story of chipmakers strategically investing to boost their tech stack.
On the healthcare front, Delphi-2M is breaking new ground by predicting long-term disease risks using UK and Danish datasets, though itâs not quite ready for clinical use due to concerns about bias and privacy. Lastly, OpenAI just gave Codex a serious upgrade with GPT-5-Codex, making it a more reliable coding partner with smarter features for developersâcould be a game-changer for those looking to streamline complex coding tasks.
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Meta ships RayâBan Display smart glasses (with a Neural Band) as a consumer AR+AI product
At Meta Connect, Meta unveiled the Meta RayâBan Display â its first RayâBanâbranded smart glasses with a builtâin color display for the right lens and an accompanying "Neural Band" wrist controller that uses surface electromyography (sEMG) for gesture input. Priced at $799 and slated to ship Sept. 30 in the U.S., the glasses deliver notifications, live captions, translations, navigation and short video playback while aiming to bridge Metaâs earlier audioâonly wearables and its more experimental Orion AR prototypes. Why it matters: this is a notable consumer push to put visible AR + onâdevice AI into a familiar eyewear form factor, signaling Metaâs strategy to move AI from phone screens to alwaysâworn wearables â a move that could reshape how people access contextâaware AI services and accelerate app/partner ecosystems for AI glasses.
Nvidia in talks to invest $500M in UK selfâdriving startup Wayve
Nvidia has signed a letter of intent to evaluate a possible $500 million strategic investment in Wayveâs next funding round, the companies said. The move builds on an ongoing partnership (Nvidia participated in Wayveâs 2024 $1B+ round) and comes amid Nvidiaâs broader pledge to pump billions into the UK AI ecosystem. Why it matters: a major strategic bet by Nvidia would deepen its ties to an endâtoâend, MLâcentric autonomous driving approach (Wayveâs cameraâfirst, foundationâmodel style stack), accelerate inâvehicle adoption of Nvidia Drive compute, and underscore how chipmakers are using direct investments to secure both customers and technology roadmaps in the race to commercialize autonomy.
Delphi-2M â a generative transformer that predicts risk for 1,000+ diseases up to decades ahead
Researchers from EMBL, the German Cancer Research Centre and collaborators published Delphi-2M, a generative-transformer model trained on anonymized UK Biobank records (~400k people) and externally validated on ~1.9M Danish registry records. The model forecasts individual risk trajectories for more than 1,000 ICD-coded conditions (and death) up to ~20 years ahead, with performance comparable to many single-disease risk tools for common conditions. Why it matters: Delphi-2M demonstrates how transformer-style generative models can be repurposed for large-scale, longitudinal clinical forecasting â enabling population-level health planning and more holistic, multi-disease risk profiling. Impact and caveats: the work could accelerate research into prevention and personalized care, but the authors and commentators caution itâs not yet a clinical diagnostic tool â questions remain about bias, generalizability across populations, privacy, and commercialization.
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Atlassian to buy developerâintelligence startup DX for about $1B to deepen AI insights for engineering teams
Atlassian announced an agreement to acquire DX, a developerâintelligence platform, for roughly $1 billion in cash and restricted stock. The deal (expected to close in Atlassianâs FY2026 Q2) will fold DXâs analytics for engineering workflows, productivity and AIâtool adoption into Atlassianâs suite (Jira, Bitbucket, etc.). Why it matters: as enterprises rush to deploy AI across engineering orgs, Atlassian is positioning itself to be the vendor that helps customers measure ROI and manage the people/process impacts of AI â a strategic move to lock in large enterprise customers and expand SaaS monetization around AI observability and governance.
Check Point acquires AIânative security firm Lakera to build endâtoâend enterprise AI protection
Check Point announced a definitive agreement to acquire Lakera, an AIânative security startup that provides preâdeployment assessments and realâtime runtime enforcement for LLMs, agents and multimodal workflows. Financial terms were not disclosed; Check Point expects the deal to close in Q4 2025. Why it matters: with enterprise adoption of generative models and autonomous agents accelerating, vendors are consolidating AI security capabilities â Check Pointâs move aims to embed runtime AI protections into its Infinity platform and position the company as a comprehensive vendor for securing the full AI lifecycle.
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OpenAI upgrades Codex with GPTâ5âCodex â a faster, more reliable coding partner
OpenAI rolled out GPTâ5âCodex (a GPTâ5 variant) to its Codex products on Sept. 15, 2025 â optimizing the model for agentic coding tasks such as long refactors, code review and multiâstep engineering workflows. The upgrade promises higher benchmark performance, dynamic âthinkingâ time (from seconds to hours depending on task complexity), better test-driven iteration, and transparency features (logs, citations, test results). Itâs available across Codex tools (CLI, IDE extensions, Codex web, GitHub integrations and ChatGPT/Codex products) for paid plans â a meaningful step for developer productivity and the growing market for AI coding assistants.
Mark Cuban Foundation opens 2025 free AI bootcamps â handsâon AI education for high schoolers
The Mark Cuban Foundation announced its expanded 2025 AI Bootcamp program (applications open through Sept. 30, 2025), bringing free, handsâon AI training to high school students and educators in dozens of U.S. cities. The threeâSaturday bootcamps teach generative AI basics, ethics, and project work with modern AI tools, plus a teacher fellowship to help scale AI curriculum â a practical, lowâcost pathway to learn AI and coding skills for underserved students.
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