{"id":704719,"date":"2026-05-30T23:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704719\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:31:11","slug":"meta-is-reportedly-developing-an-ai-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704719\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing in the next year, according to a memo <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/meta-memo-outlines-ambitious-hardware-plans-including-new-ai-pendant\" target=\"_blank\">viewed by The Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This device would presumably build on the work of Limitless, an <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/05\/meta-acquires-ai-device-startup-limitless\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI device startup that Meta acquired<\/a> at the end of 2025. The startup made an AI pendant that users could attach to their shirt or wear as a necklace to record their conversations.\u00a0 At the time, Meta said the acquisition would allow it to \u201caccelerate our work to build AI-enabled wearables.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier AI wearables have failed to catch on with consumers \u2014 perhaps due to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/09\/27\/ai-startup-friend-spent-more-than-1m-on-all-those-subway-ads\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">privacy concerns and tone-deaf marketing<\/a>, or perhaps because they <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/18\/humanes-ai-pin-is-dead-as-hp-buys-startups-assets-for-116m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just weren\u2019t that useful<\/a>. But companies like OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/10\/05\/openai-and-jony-ive-may-be-struggling-to-figure-out-their-ai-device\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aren\u2019t giving up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The memo also reportedly states that the company is planning to expand its lineup of AI glasses and launch a business subscription called Wearables for Work. With all these planned devices, Meta is apparently hoping to reverse the fortunes of its hardware-focused Reality Labs division, which <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/29\/meta-is-still-burning-money-on-ar-vr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost $4 billion<\/a> in the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to Meta for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant that it plans to start testing in the next year, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,281,61],"class_list":["post-704719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-meta","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}