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If You’re Not Wearing Smart Glasses, You’re Losing 🤔
Plus: Microsoft’s AI Bet Pays Off
Good Morning, AI Enthusiast!
Today, the big conversation? Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on his belief that AI-powered glasses will soon be the ultimate tool for human-computer interaction.
Let’s break it down.
Today’s Unfiltered Report Features:
Top Stories Including: GitHub Copilot just hit 20 million all-time users and AI TV Just Got Real
If You’re Not Wearing Smart Glasses, You’re Losing….well according to Zuck
From Pink Slips to Profits: Microsoft’s AI Bet Pays Off
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Top Stories
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AI Coding Wars Are Heating Up and GitHub Copilot’s Still in the Lead: GitHub Copilot just hit 20 million all-time users, gaining 5 million in the last 3 months, and is now used by 90% of the Fortune 100 but Microsoft won’t say how many are still using it daily.
Enterprise adoption is surging, and rivals like Cursor (now at $500M+ ARR) are closing in fast with daily users and aggressive hiring. With tech giants like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic piling into the space, AI coding tools are shaping up to be one of the most cutthroat arenas in AI and the IDE may be the next battlefield.
Microsoft & Meta Just Added $440B to Wall Street: Microsoft and Meta added a combined $440 billion in market value in after-hours trading, following blockbuster earnings that proved their AI bets are paying off. Meta beat revenue expectations and bumped its capital spending by $2B for its “superintelligence” ambitions, while Microsoft’s Azure-driven surge impressed investors. With Nvidia and Amazon riding the wave too, Wall Street’s AI obsession isn’t cooling off it’s just getting richer.
AI TV Just Got Real But Will Anyone Watch (or Make) It?: Fable’s new platform Showrunner is launching this week, promising to let anyone generate their own animated TV shows with just a few words think “Netflix meets ChatGPT.” With Amazon backing the bet, users can create and share entire episodes, insert themselves as characters, and remix story worlds, though CEO Edward Saatchi isn’t convinced the masses want to be DIY showrunners. The tech is flashy, the idea is bold but whether it’s the future of entertainment or just another VR-style fizz-out? That’s still up for season renewal.
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Zuckerberg’s AI Vision
If You’re Not Wearing Smart Glasses, You’re Losing
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on his belief that AI-powered glasses will soon be the ultimate tool for human-computer interaction and if you’re not wearing them? You’ll be at a “significant cognitive disadvantage.” Harsh. But very on-brand.
Key Points:
AI, But Make It Fashion: Zuckerberg claims smart glasses are the ideal form factor for AI allowing it to see what you see, hear what you hear, and whisper sweet productivity tips in your ear all day.
Next-Gen Displays: Whether it’s holograms or a simple heads-up, Zuck says adding displays to glasses will unlock serious value.
From Side Hustle to Surprise Hit: Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses are bringing in unexpected revenue, with sales tripling YoY.
Competition Brewing: OpenAI and Jony Ive are cooking up new AI devices, and other startups are testing wearable formats like pins and pendants.
Cultural Fit: Glasses might win not because they’re new, but because they’re normal unlike that AI brooch no one wanted.
Zuckerberg’s bet is clear: glasses will be the gateway drug to AI and the metaverse. Whether the world agrees or ends up addicted to some other weird AI gadget remains to be seen. But for now? He’s all in on eyewear. So maybe don’t toss your Warby Parkers just yet.
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From Pink Slips to Profits: Microsoft’s AI Bet Pays Off
Microsoft just reported a 25% jump in profits, raking in $27.2 billion last quarter and inching closer to a $4 trillion market cap thanks largely to its booming AI-infused Azure cloud business. But let’s not forget: this glow-up comes on the heels of laying off 9,000 employees, many of whom ironically helped build the AI systems now replacing them. With Copilot baked into everything from Microsoft 365 to Azure AI Foundry, and $120B projected in infrastructure spend, Microsoft is going all-in on AI even if it means the humans who made it happen are no longer needed.
TL;DR: Microsoft’s AI profits are soaring, but the humans behind the curtain? Not so lucky.
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That’s a Wrap for Today 👋
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