Coverage of Meta's AI roadmap, open model strategy, advertising moves, and product decisions shaping the social web.
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The IAB NewFronts completed their transformation from digital video showcase to tech-and-data bazaar. Performance TV, creator matchmaking, and pause ads dominated. Here is who actually benefits.
Meta is reportedly doubling AI smart glasses production capacity while cutting VR studios and freezing Horizon Worlds development. The dollars are moving from headsets to wearables, and developers need to read the room.
Snap, Meta, Google, Samsung, and Apple are all converging on AR glasses in 2026. The most alignment immersive tech has ever had happened fast, and the race to ship a pair people actually wear is on.
Meta cut 700 more jobs yesterday, hitting Reality Labs again. Two rounds in three months, a gutted first-party content pipeline, and a company spending billions on AI. Here is what XR developers should actually do with their build decisions right now.
After three decades as the world's most successful chip design licensor, Arm held up its own silicon on stage. The AGI CPU is not just a product launch. It is a signal that the AI buildout is collapsing the old horizontal layers of the semiconductor industry.
Google's Android XR platform now spans headsets, AR glasses, and AI frames from five manufacturers. It's the Android smartphone playbook all over again, and the developer ecosystem race against Meta is just getting started.
Meta announced it was killing Horizon Worlds on VR. Then the community spoke — and within 24 hours, the company reversed course. This is what that reversal actually means for spatial computing.
Zuckerberg is building an AI agent to help him run Meta by cutting through organizational layers for faster answers. It's a prototype, but the pattern it represents is the enterprise AI category to watch.
Meta says AI will replace its third-party content moderators over the next few years. The performance claims are impressive. The accountability framework is mostly absent.
Meta's Q1 2026 revenue guidance beat consensus by billions. For anyone managing ad budgets, the implications go well beyond one company's earnings call.