The new Meta-branded glasses have the same camera, microphones, and chatbot as the Ray-Bans. They come in three styles, one of which was codesigned with Kylie Jenner. Smart glasses are like public transportation, according to Peter Bristol, Meta's vice president of industrial design. "People will use it when it's good enough." To reach "good enough," Meta is making its smart glasses more accessible, more customizable, and comfier to wear.

In an internal memo seen by WIRED, Bosworth promised employees more stability, better communication, and the return of workplace perks as the company seeks to improve morale. Meta did an "atrocious" job of rolling out a new artificial intelligence division and will aim to "rekindle" a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and even snacks, a top executive told employees on Monday in an internal post seen by WIRED. The comments made by Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, follow reporting by WIRED last week that revealed widespread dissatisfaction within the Applied AI engineering unit. Meta formed the division of about 6,500 engineers and product managers in March to work on projects aimed at improving the company's generative AI models. But what workers described as the menial nature of the work prompted one to describe it as "a gulag."

Meta Will Keep Horizon Worlds Alive in VR'for the Foreseeable Future' A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain available in VR--with limited support. One day after Meta announced it was shutting down Horizon Worlds in virtual reality, the company's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, announced that it's reversing course. "I have a little bit of good news for you here," Bosworth said in a video AMA on Instagram. "We have decided, just today in fact, that we will keep Horizon Worlds working in VR for existing games, to support the fans who reached out." Meta initially sent an email to Horizon Worlds users on Tuesday saying it would end Horizon Worlds in VR on June 15 but keep the platform afloat on mobile.

The layoffs have been a long time coming. The Meta Quest 3 VR goggles and controllers are shown sitting on a wooden tabletop with blue walls and a white door in the background. As we expected, Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division, which focused on virtual reality and metaverse products, reports . The company will refocus on developing wearables, like its recent batch of AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses, according to a memo from CTO Andrew Bosworth. Reality Labs has lost more than $70 billion since the beginning of 2021, and while Meta has done a solid job of delivering desirable consumer VR headsets and smart glasses, that business hasn't been nearly profitable enough to justify the cost.

Elon Musk has raided Meta's collection of talented researchers, despite Mark Zuckerberg reportedly offering some a fortune to choose his company instead. The workers were part of Zuckerberg's AI team, helping Meta in the global race to build superintelligence, an almost godlike form of artificial intelligence that could think for itself and be much smarter than any human. Musk himself has gloated about the departures, posting on X that'many strong Meta engineers have and are joining xAI and without the need for insane initial [compensation].' At least 14 Meta researchers and engineers have left for their new home at Musk's AI competitor since January, while others have fled to OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. A spokesperson for Meta told the Daily Mail: 'Some attrition is normal for any organization of this size.'

Meta's chief technology officer has called it "the great honor of my life" to be enlisted in a new US army corps that defence chiefs set up to better integrate military and tech industry expertise, including senior figures from top tech firms that also include Palantir and OpenAI. Andrew Bosworth, a long-term lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg known widely as "Boz", is one of several senior Silicon Valley executives commissioned to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the corps, called Detachment 201, which the US army says will "fuse cutting-edge tech expertise with military innovation". Bosworth, who joined Facebook in 2006, was sworn into the army reserves earlier this month alongside Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer of Palantir, a technology firm with extensive defence contracts, Kevin Weil, chief product officer of OpenAI, and Bob McGrew, an adviser at Thinking Machines Lab, a 10bn AI company. They wore military fatigues at the swearing-in ceremony but will not be full-time soldiers. The recruitment is a sign of the increasing importance of technology in modern warfare and growing commercial and research links between some of the largest tech firms and the military.

When I read a tweet about four noted Silicon Valley executives being inducted into a special detachment of the United States Army Reserve, including Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, I questioned its veracity. It's very hard to discern truth from satire in 2025, in part because of social media sites owned by Bosworth's company. But it indeed was true. Boz is now Lieutenant Colonel Bosworth. The other newly commissioned officers include Kevin Weil, OpenAI's head of product; Bob McGrew, a former OpenAI head of research now advising Mira Murati's company Thinking Machines Lab; and Shyam Sankar, the CTO of Palantir.

The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are about to get some powerful upgrades thanks to improvements to the social network's AI assistant. The company is finally adding support for real-time information to the onboard assistant, and it's starting to test new "multimodal" capabilities that allow it to answer questions based on your environment. Up to now, Meta AI had a "knowledge cutoff" of December 2022, so it couldn't answer questions about current events, or things like game scores, traffic conditions or other queries that would be especially useful while on the go. But that's now changing, according to Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, who said that all Meta smart glasses in the United States will now be able to access real-time info. The change is powered "in part" by Bing, he added.

Meta plans to monetize its proprietary generative AI technology by December, joining Google in exploring practical applications. The company has been investing in AI for over a decade and recently created a new generative AI team to focus on commercialization. Generative AI technology, which can instantly create sentences and graphics, has been commercialized by ChatGPT creator OpenAI. However, Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth insists that Meta remains at the cutting edge, with its recently formed generative AI team. Meta aims to use AI to improve ad effectiveness and apply the technology across all its products, including Facebook and Instagram.

According to Facebook-turned-Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the company's metaverse of dead-eyed avatars has been all but abandoned by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg -- who, in an added blow, is instead said to be spending the bulk of his time chasing the investor-appeasing Silicon Valley squirrel that is generative AI. "We've been investing in artificial intelligence for over a decade, and have one of the leading research institutes in the world," Bosworth told Nikkei Asia in an interview on Wednesday. "We certainly have a large research organization, hundreds of people." "We just created a new team, the generative AI team, a couple of months ago; they are very busy," he added. That sound you just heard in the distance? A single, pixelated tear, hitting the deserted Horizon Worlds' floor.