Meta unveils $1,299.99, 100-gram Meta VR Glasses for spring 2027 while expanding Ray-Ban AI wearables with 12-hour open-ear audio models and adding Mac control and real-time voice avatars to Muse.
OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to ChatGPT Work and Codex on web and mobile, letting Pro and Plus users create documents, decks, spreadsheets and websites by voice, as Meta’s Muse agent reportedly tops 500,000 users in its first week.
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, an on-device AI platform for earbuds, smart glasses, watches and pins that it says doubles AI capability while using 40% less power and can run multiple AI agents at once.
Meta unveils Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first audio-only glasses, shipping October 13 from $349, while Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 launches globally from $449 with a Meta AI action button, nine-hour battery life and 12 MP/3K capture.
ElevenLabs launches the HIPAA-eligible Scribe v2 Medical speech-to-text model on ElevenAPI, offering enterprise customers Zero Retention Mode and posting a 4.9% word error rate across English, French, and German on Corti’s MedDictate benchmark.
Qualcomm launches Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 chips, with the Extreme model running 30-billion-parameter on-device AI and debuting in Motorola’s Signature 27.
Google launches Googlebooks, Android-based laptops starting at $899 that retain ChromeOS while centering Gemini features such as Magic Pointer, Rambler voice-to-text and Create My Widget; HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and ASUS models are available for U.S. preorder ahead of October 4 availability.
Apple unveils Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 with an S11 chip powering AI health, Siri and audio tools, including heart-rate readings every five seconds and a Readiness score that requires seven days of qualifying sleep data.
Salesforce unveils Slackforce at Dreamforce 2026, letting users query and complete nearly all Salesforce tasks inside Slack through Surface-generated interactive interfaces, with two-way Slackbot voice due later this year.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking for developers to build real-time voice agents that execute tasks mid-conversation, adding asynchronous function calling, live visual context and support for more than 97 languages.