🤖 Apple Ditches Vision Pro — and OpenAI Hits $500B

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If you thought the AI hype train was slowing down… think again. Apple is ditching its headset dreams for a shot at smart glasses, Mira Murati is back with a startup that could redefine how we build AI, and OpenAI just touched a jaw-dropping $500B valuation. Buckle up — this one’s packed. 🚀

🕶️ Apple Eyes the Smart Glasses Throne

👑 From Vision Pro to Vision-less
Apple’s mixed-reality headset dreams are fading fast. Bloomberg reports the company scrapped plans for a lighter, cheaper Vision Pro and is now laser-focused on building AI-powered smart glasses — and going toe-to-toe with Meta.

🔍 The details:

• Apple halted development of a budget Vision Pro planned for 2027, reassigning engineering teams to its new wearable AI project.

• The first glasses — expected by 2027 — will tether to iPhones with no screen, while a second version will include a display to rival Meta’s Neural Band-equipped Display Glasses.

• Built-in voice controls, cameras, speakers, and health sensors will be powered by a reimagined Siri.

💡 Why it matters: Vision Pro launched with massive hype but flopped due to its bulky design and sky-high price. Now, Apple’s betting that AI wearables — sleek, simple, and powered by Siri 2.0 — are the real future of spatial computing.

⚙️ Mira Murati’s Tinker Lets Anyone Build Custom AI

🔧 From Frontier Models to Tailored Tools
Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is back — and her new startup Thinking Machines Lab just dropped its first product: Tinker, an API that makes customizing top-tier AI models stupidly easy.

🔍 The details:

• Tinker supports fine-tuning for Meta’s Llama and Alibaba’s Qwen, letting devs adapt them for niche uses like math, chemistry, and research.

• Universities including Stanford, Princeton, and Berkeley are already building tools for scientific reasoning and proof-solving.

• Early access is free — but premium tiers are on the way.

💡 Why it matters: Building models from scratch is expensive and slow. Tinker flips that script by making it effortless to customize existing AIs — a shift that could define the next wave of the industry.

🗞️ Other News You Should Know

⚡ Gemini takes over your home: Google unveiled AI-powered Nest Cams, Doorbells, and Home Speakers — plus a redesigned app and new subscription plan.
🚫 Disney strikes back: Character AI removed all Disney characters after a legal warning, including Spider-Man, Elsa, and Darth Vader.
📈 Sora goes viral: OpenAI’s new social app shot to #3 on the App Store, trailing only Gemini and ChatGPT.
🛍️ Visual search on steroids: Google’s AI Mode now lets you shop by uploading images, searching across 50B+ product listings.
💾 $500B and counting: OpenAI’s valuation soared to $500B as it inked a deal with Samsung and SK Hynix for memory chips to fuel its Stargate data center.
🎥 AI filmmaking on fast-forward: A Reddit user recreated a car crash scene in 5 hours using Sora 2 — a task that used to take 80 hours and thousands of dollars.
😱 AI prank gone too far: Kids are now sending parents AI-generated “intruder” photos — and some are actually calling the police.

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💡What else are we reading and seeing?

• Visual Electric is joining Perplexity

• When AI Does Every Job, Who Gets Paid?

• DoorDash now has a delivery robot called Dot

• Meet the Arc spacecraft: it aims to deliver cargo anywhere in the world in an hour

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