00:00Hello everybody and welcome to our weekly news recap. We have some really interesting stories
00:04today. This first one was really interesting although the title of this article I think is
00:08quite funny but it is accurate. It says Meta reportedly creating glasses without cameras
00:13after pervert uproar. If you did not know Meta glasses have cameras in them which allow people
00:18to record things around them. This is well known and when people are recording there's supposed to
00:22be this little red light but a lot of people pay to have that red light taken off so people
00:28don't
00:29know when they're actually recording. This has caused a lot of issues over the years because
00:33people don't like people recording them without their knowledge and it's really easy to just pay
00:38somebody to get this taken care of or you can follow a tutorial online and you can get that red
00:43light taken off. It says right here according to reporting from the information Meta wants to begin
00:48selling the new glasses called Luna in October and could introduce the new devices at its Connect
00:54Developer Conference next week. This conference is scheduled for September 23rd and 24th and will be
01:00live streamed so that could be as early as today. I think this is an extremely intentional move
01:05considering that a lot of people will not buy them anymore or a lot of people like look down on
01:10people
01:11who have them because they're called pervert glasses. I think having the option to have the camera
01:15or not have the camera is a really good idea. If you don't have the camera it's going to leave
01:18a lot
01:19more room within the actual glasses themselves to fit more things. Probably better audio as well as
01:24just the interface on the actual lens. They have more room to make it look better. With that being
01:29said they could announce that as soon as today. If they do I'll be talking about that next week.
01:34Let's move on to our next story. It says right here OpenAI Ananthropic way cross-testing deal as AI
01:40safety concerns grow. It says right here according to a report by the information the proposed arrangement
01:45would give OpenAI and Ananthropic API access to each other's commercial models so that they conduct
01:51independent stress tests. The companies would agree not to retain data obtained during the testing
01:56process. Here's what this arrangement would look like. First OpenAI and Ananthropic would receive
02:00API access to each other's commercially available models. The companies would use that access to look
02:04for safety vulnerabilities and unexpected behaviors. Neither side would retain the other's company data
02:10collected during the testing and the arrangement would provide another layer of scrutiny alongside
02:14internal and independent evaluations. This actually isn't something as new. They did this back in
02:19August of 2025 and tried to kind of sketch out a deal for this but it never fully went into
02:25place.
02:25Now that it looks like they are revisiting this and it may actually happen. I think that this is just
02:29a really interesting thing in general that these companies are doing this by themselves right. The
02:35government isn't forcing them to do it but they see a need for it and they are doing it. Does
02:39this mean
02:40that they're doing it for like really altruistic reasons? Probably not. They just don't want either
02:46one to get so far ahead that they can't copy it or stay competitive and they're not sure which one
02:50is
02:51kind of kind of take the lead in this front and sort of saying hey let's hedge our bets and
02:55sign
02:55this agreement so we can check each other's models. This most likely will just keep them near the same
03:00level with the actual capability of their models. For the last several weeks we've been talking about how
03:04I think that the government should really step in but that the government is really slow to action
03:09in the U.S. They're just they like to take their time in like five years they'll make one law
03:14and
03:14they'll be like man we really should have done this five years ago. So it's just interesting that
03:18companies are starting to self-regulate as it pertains to AI. Our last story of the day is that
03:23Tesla's active robo taxi fleet in Austin crashes back to eight vehicles after cyber cab pump. It says
03:29right here that Tesla held a cyber cab launch event in Austin on September 3rd and invited a wave of
03:34supporters and Tesla influencers to ride the steering wheel free vehicle and for a few days X was full of
03:41first ride videos. That in general just does not surprise me because they're going to invite everyone
03:45out they want videos all over the place but once those influencers actually leave and go home because
03:51they don't live in Austin then the demand is going to go down dramatically. The tracker data shows
03:56exactly what that looked like. The number of unique Tesla robo taxis actually seen carrying riders in
04:01Austin spiked past 100 in early September up from the 20 to 40 range it had been stuck at for
04:06most
04:06of the year. This is the graph that they're talking about from June 21st 2025. Right around here is
04:12September this is a couple weeks ago there's this huge spike and then it goes dramatically down. I'll have
04:17a link to this article but basically it talks about the difference between registered vehicles and active
04:21ones where they have about 476 registered vehicles but over the last seven days only eight of them were
04:28actually carrying passengers. There could be several reasons for this but one of them could be technical
04:33in which case the cyber cab just isn't working exactly as they are wanting. It took about a 10 minute
04:38trip
04:39into a 70 minute detour and of course once all those influencers actually left the city there's not
04:44going to be as much demand. With that being said Tesla's still registering a ton more of these cyber cabs
04:49within the
04:50DMV in Texas. So it doesn't look like they're going to be slowing down at any point. I really can
04:54see this
04:55in like 20 or 30 years being kind of the go-to thing in almost every metropolitan area. Elon Musk
05:01just in
05:02general is no stranger to setbacks and he has been known to push through and overcome almost every
05:06obstacle that's been thrown in his way. So it would not surprise me if this is just a small blip
05:12on the
05:12radar. It's just really interesting especially after they had that big press conference and that big
05:16announcement and launch. With that being said that's all we have for this week. If Meta actually
05:21does make that announcement either yesterday or today because I'm recording this on Wednesday it
05:25goes out Thursday. If they make that announcement I'll talk a little bit more about it when we have
05:29more information. If we get to actually see what it looks like and what technology they're going to
05:32replace those cameras with within the actual glasses themselves. I myself am in the market for some
05:38new glasses. I just posted on I guess LinkedIn and X and YouTube saying hey people vote and I will
05:44buy
05:45these different types of glasses. If Apple were to actually come out with some smart glasses I think
05:50I would get those purely because I'm part of the you know Apple ecosystem. I have a MacBook and I
05:55use
05:56an iPhone and so I'm in that world. I would definitely try them out and get some prescription
06:01lenses in there because I don't have the best eyesight. But with the Meta ones I'm not so sure. I'm
06:06not as
06:06invested just with Meta products in general. That's all we have for today. If you like this video be sure
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