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Meta Just Made Glasses Worth Wearing

$799 Ray-Ban Display glasses landed at Connect 2025. Full-color heads-up display, live captions, navigation, and WhatsApp video calls floating in your vision.

The kicker? Neural wristband reads muscle signals for hands-free control. No awkward finger tapping or voice commands.

Analysts are calling it the first step toward "post-smartphone" computing and I call it EYEPHONE(see meme). Your phone might be obsolete sooner than you think.

Central Banks Just Gave Tech a Shot of Adrenaline

Rate cuts are back. Lower borrowing costs mean VCs start throwing money at anything with "AI" in the pitch deck.

Historically, cheap money equals mega-rounds, sky-high valuations, and startup feeding frenzies. If rates stay low, expect the funding party to get wild.

China Just Punched Nvidia in the Wallet

New restrictions block Chinese firms from buying advanced Nvidia AI chips. Beijing wants to boost domestic chipmakers and cut U.S. tech dependence.

The chip war just escalated. Nvidia's China revenue is about to crater.

Oracle and Meta Are Cooking Up Another AI Mega-Deal

Multi-billion-dollar cloud computing partnership in the works. Oracle wants to power Meta's AI model training and cement its spot as enterprise AI king.

When database dinosaurs team up with social media giants, infrastructure gets interesting.

Amazon's Fall Hardware Show Is Coming

September 27: Amazon's annual gadget parade. New Alexa devices, robots, and smarter Fire TV updates promise deeper AI integration for your home.

Your house is about to get a lot more algorithmic.

H-1B Visa Fees Just Got Brutal

Sharp fee hikes for large companies hiring foreign talent. Tech giants and startups face bigger hurdles sourcing critical AI and software engineers from abroad.

Silicon Valley's talent pipeline just got more expensive and complicated.

Three Startups Raised Big for AI's Next Wave

Seattle's Synthesize Bio grabbed $10M for biological foundation models. Atlanta's Airia scored $100M for AI security. San Francisco's CodeRabbit nabbed $60M for AI code reviews.

VCs are betting AI will eat biology, security, and software development. They're probably right.

TL;DR: That's your week. Glasses got smart, money got cheap, chips got banned, and deals got bigger. The future keeps accelerating whether borders like it or not.

Cheers,
Oleg👊

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