AI Wearables

Forget the Vision Pro. Apple’s next power move isn’t about strapping a screen to your face — it’s about putting AI eyes on everything else you’re already wearing. A wave of reports led by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has confirmed what the rumor mill has been grinding toward for months: Apple is aggressively developing three AI-powered wearable devices simultaneously. Smart glasses. An AI pendant. Camera-equipped AirPods. And over the weekend, Tim Cook signaled that Visual Intelligence — the ability for AI to see and interpret the real world around you — is the thread that stitches all three together. ...

Forget the chatbot wars. The biggest AI story developing right now isn’t about benchmark scores — it’s about where AI is going to live. Within five days, we learned that Apple is fast-tracking three AI wearables simultaneously, OpenAI has over 200 people building hardware with Jony Ive, and Meta is expanding its already-successful Ray-Ban smart glasses globally. Snap is even spinning its AR glasses into a standalone company. This isn’t coincidence. This is the starting gun of the AI hardware race. ...