Meta launches smart glasses with subscription features and AI image generation using public Instagram photos, while Apple enhances Siri, Google updates AI usage and data training, and Nvidia expands AI chip dominance, collectively reshaping consumer tech with new capabilities and privacy considerations.
China's Gaokao exam security is enhanced with new rules. Spectacles will be checked, and carrying smart devices like phones, watches, or glasses into the exam hall is considered cheating. Metal item detection is also intensified.
England's exam watchdog Ofqual is scrutinizing the use of AI in coursework and warning about new wearable tech like smartglasses and invisible earpieces escalating cheating. Head Ian Bauckham stated the qualifications system is at risk of being undermined.
Cox Media, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works will pay $930,000 to settle FTC claims that they falsely advertised a "Voice Data" system capable of spying on users via phones and smart devices to target ads. The FTC found the companies lied about listening to conversations and instead resold email lists.
Google is expanding its Gemini for Home program, offering hardware partners full-stack AI capabilities, reference designs, and a subscription service to speed up the development of AI-enabled smart home devices like cameras and speakers.
A survey by the Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union found that 49.2% of upper-grade elementary school students (grades 4-6) use smart devices for more than two hours daily after school. The survey of 2,804 students also revealed that 70% use generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, with usage increasing by grade level.
