First, they showed the world how easy it is to add facial recognition to Meta's smart glasses. Former Harvard students Caine Ardayfio and AnhPhu Nguyen this week announced Halo, a startup of roughly 11 people working to develop always-recording smart glasses. The pair dropped out of Harvard to develop Halo X, smart glasses with a display on the lens that can answer any question someone asks. Powered by a combination of Google's Gemini and Perplexity large language models, the idea is that these glasses will always be listening to the world around you via the built-in microphones (there won't be a camera in this first model.) If someone asks, "What's the capital of Peru?" just look at the display on the glasses, and you'll be able to see the answer.

Google is teasing an intriguing new AI feature one day ahead of its I/O developer conference. The company shared a brief video on X that appears to show a new camera-powered AI feature that's able to recognize what's in the frame in real time. The video, which is labeled as a "prototype," shows what appears to be a Pixel device with the camera open viewing the keynote stage at I/O. The person holding the camera asks, "hey, what do you think is happening here?" A voice replies that "it looks like people are setting up for a large event, perhaps a conference or presentation."