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Meta Connect two thousand twenty six is on the horizon, and Mark Zuckerberg has a full plate. Expect new AI-powered glasses and an updated mixed reality headset, as the company continues its long bet that spatial computing and ambient AI will eventually become as ordinary as a smartphone in your pocket.
Shifting to a story with quieter but real stakes, health insurance startup Angle Health has reached a valuation of two point seven billion dollars. The Y Combinator alum serves five thousand small business customers through so-called level-funded insurance plans, and it has done something rare in the startup world — it is actually profitable.
Perhaps the most unsettling story today comes from the world of AI influence operations. According to the New York Times, Iran and China are now running autonomous AI-driven campaigns designed to shape public opinion, with minimal human involvement. That shift from human-directed to machine-directed propaganda represents a meaningful escalation in how information warfare actually works.
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