Meta’s smart glasses get neural upgrade

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Meta just took smart glasses to the subsequent level at Meta Connect, revealing three recent products — including a Neural Band that shifts control out of your voice to your thoughts.

With the flexibility to regulate your glasses through subtle muscle signals (and no awkward voice commands), Meta is constructing a future where your phone never leaves your pocket.

ICYMI — Rowan (CEO at The Rundown) sat down for an exclusive Q&A with CEO Mark Zuckerberg ahead of Meta Connect. Watch the complete interview on YouTube.

In today’s AI rundown:

• Meta’s smart glasses get a neural upgrade

• OpenAI, Google models take gold at ICPC contest

• Construct agents, automations using Replit Agent 3

• AI forecasts patient risk for 1,000+ diseases

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

META

🕶️ Meta’s smart glasses get a neural upgrade

The Rundown: Meta just revealed three smart glasses at Meta Connect, including Ray-Ban Display glasses that pair with a Neural Band to detect muscle signals before you visibly move, an athlete-focused Oakley line, and the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2.

The small print:

• Display glasses use the Neural Band to detect electrical muscle signals, enabling messaging, navigation, and more via subtle finger movements.

• The Neural Band may also learn and personalize to the user’s unique patterns, making controlling the interface nearly imperceptible.

• Gen 2 doubles battery life to eight hours while adding 3K Ultra HD video recording and conversation focus to amplify voices in noisy environments.

• The Oakley Meta Vanguard targets athletes with 9-hour battery life, water resistance, and Garmin connectivity for real-time performance metrics.

Why it matters: Meta is solving two problems which have plagued other smart glasses: making wearables people actually wish to wear, with controls that work without awkward voice commands. With the Neural Band detecting intention before movement even occurs, that is potentially the beginning of tech that responds to thought over touch.

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OPENAI & GOOGLE

🥇OpenAI, Google models take gold at ICPC contest

The Rundown: Each OpenAI and Google announced gold medal performances on the 2025 ICPC World Finals, a top collegiate programming competition, with OpenAI’s GPT-5 solving all 12 problems to say what can be first place amongst humans.

The small print:

• OpenAI achieved an ideal 12/12 rating using GPT-5 and an experimental reasoning model, surpassing all 139 university teams that competed.

• Google’s Gemini 2.5 Deep Think finished with 10/12 correct to earn gold-medal status, notably solving one problem that stumped every human competitor.

• Each corporations competed under official contest conditions with equivalent constraints as human participants, with the highest human team scoring an 11/12.

• The achievement comes after OpenAI and Google’s gold-level performances on the IMO, OAI’s IOI gold, and a silver finish on the AtCoder Finals.

Why it matters: Competitive programming has been solved internally, and there’s no going back for humans to regain control of the leaderboards. While AGI hasn’t been declared (and is essentially subjective), it’s clear that models have already reached superhuman abilities in greater than a number of domains — and are only recovering.

AI TRAINING

🎬 Create skilled marketing videos using AI agents

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn use Claude Code to mechanically construct complete video projects using frameworks like Remotion, turning easy prompts into marketing videos with animations and skilled effects.

Step-by-step:

1. Type in your terminal: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

2. Navigate to your project folder and kind claude to activate the AI agent

3. Prompt: “Create a premium marketing video for [your company] using Remotion”

4. Refine with follow-ups and run npm run start to preview your video locally

Pro Tip: Add your personal images, logos, and UI screenshots to the project folder before prompting, and the AI will incorporate them into skilled video sequences.

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IBM Instana’s AI-powered observability:

• Uses agentic AI for fast, autonomous investigations

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• Delivers remediation steps and documentation mechanically

• Helps teams act quickly—even in high-stress, 2 am moments

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AI RESEARCH

🔮 AI forecasts patient risk for 1,000+ diseases

The Rundown: European researchers just developed Delphi-2M, an AI system that analyzes medical records to calculate individual disease risks across greater than 1,000 conditions as much as 20 years into the longer term.

The small print:

• The model studied health data from 400K U.K. patients, learning patterns from doctor visits, hospital stays, and lifestyle habits to identify early warning signs.

• Delphi-2M matched or exceeded single-disease models while concurrently reporting probabilities for 1,258 conditions, including cancer and diabetes.

• Researchers verified accuracy by having the AI predict diseases for patients with already known health outcomes, tested on 1.9M Danish records.

Why it matters: While these are probabilities for medical outcomes, a predictor that works across over 1,000 conditions helps show how different conditions connect and influence one another, and provides a more proactive approach to health than the present reactive treatments often found across the medical world.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 💵 AP2 – Google’s recent open protocol for agentic transactions

• 🧊 Hunyuan3D 3.0 – Tencent’s upgraded 3D model

• ⚙️ Orchids – AI full-stack engineer for constructing prototypes, apps, and web sites

• 📚 Tongyi DeepResearch – Alibaba’s open-source SOTA research agent

📰 Every little thing else in AI today

World Labs launched Marble, a beta platform that generates explorable, persistent 3D worlds from text or image prompts.

OpenAI and Apollo Research published recent data on scheming behaviors across AI models, developing recent training methods to cut back the deceptive actions by 30x.

China’s web regulator banned major tech firms, including ByteDance and Alibaba, from purchasing Nvidia’s AI chips, pushing using domestic alternatives.

Elon Musk posted on X that he believes Grok 5 has “a likelihood of reaching AGI”, saying the next-gen model will begin training in a number of weeks.

Zoom introduced AI Companion 3.0, featuring the flexibility to streamline meetings, create custom AI agents, use photorealistic avatars, and more.

AI models are becoming too smart for humans to coach, with experts reportedly struggling to create tasks difficult enough for OAI’s advanced models.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Anonymous in Latest Zealand:

“AI helps me all day long. From responding to emails in a more polite, skilled manner, creating ad copies for the properties I’m listing, to coming up with creative ways of writing my weekly newsletter — even reading architectural plans and researching the marketplace for the aim of writing appraisals.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & Events

• Read our last AI newsletter: Google tackles AI’s payment problem

• Read our last Tech newsletter: Alphabet joins the $3T club

• Read our last Robotics newsletter: Zoox’s driverless robotaxi service

• Today’s AI tool guide: Construct agents and automations using Replit Agent 3

• RSVP to next workshop @ 4 PM EST Friday: Construct reliable AI assistants

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown