Google rolls out Gemini Connected Apps, enabling users to manage work projects, create assets and plan workouts inside Gemini through integrations including Airtable, Adobe, Peloton, Webflow and Zoho.
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.
YouTube launches Custom Feeds and expands Ask YouTube shopping tools, letting viewers save interest-specific homepage tabs and ask product questions—including voice queries on TVs, comparison tables and follow-ups—directly from video watch pages.
Anishfn launches Shapeshift, an offline-first text input that instantly turns requests into interactive tools such as event cards, checklists, timers, bill splitters and polls, using TypeSafe AI’s Jev model for 14 parallel intent questions while deterministic code handles calculations.
Meta Superintelligence Labs product chief Nat Friedman admits its newly No. 1 U.S. App Store app Muse is heavily inspired by Peter Steinberger’s OpenClaw, retaining OpenClaw-like workspace filenames and nearly identical SOUL.md content while insisting Meta built the product from scratch.
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.
Apple retail creator Ron Johnson says AI shopping agents will enhance online buying but cannot replace stores, arguing consumers will still want to handle devices and compare displays before spending $1,000 to $2,000 on a laptop.
Google opens U.S. preorders for the $899 Googlebook AI laptop ahead of its October 4 retail launch, pairing Android and desktop Chrome with Magic Cursor, Gemini Live, and 12 months of Google AI Pro with 5TB storage.
Meta’s Muse surges to No. 1 overall on the U.S. App Store, logging 1.8 million iOS downloads in its first 12 days in the U.S. and Canada—outpacing ChatGPT’s 1.3 million at the same stage.
Meta’s Muse AI becomes the top free U.S. iPhone app ahead of ChatGPT, but Amazon blocks it over concerns it could capture customer credentials and scrape account data.