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Meta's New Smart Glasses Lineup Includes Three Price Points and a Camera-Free Model

Meta unveiled Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3, a camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio model, and $249 Adventurer-style glasses at Connect 2026, with a new Private Processing feature and Muse coming to all of them

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 22:49 ET3 min read
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Beyond Glasses: Meta Teases a Muse Handheld and a 100-Gram VR Headset

Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a palm-sized 5G handheld for its AI agent, and Meta VR Glasses, a 100-gram headset with a separate compute puck, at Connect 2026.

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 22:47 ET3 min read
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Fastly Stock Jumps 17% on Report That It Handles All of Meta Muse's Browser-Agent Tasks

Fastly shares surged after a circulated OddDiligence report found the company handled 100% of Meta Muse's browser-navigation and browser-agent test traffic, prompting Freedom Broker to raise its price target to $37

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 15:35 ET3 min read
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10-Year Treasury Yield Tops 5.1%, Highest Since 2007

The 10-year Treasury yield surged more than 14 basis points to 5.116%, its highest since July 2007, as strong PMI data and rising oil prices pushed October Fed rate-hike odds to 70% from 55%

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 15:25 ET3 min read
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Anthropic Says Claude Independently Discovered a New CRISPR-Like Enzyme System

Anthropic says its Claude model autonomously discovered a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeats in bacteriophage DNA, the first result from its new wet lab, though the system's actual function remains unknown.

DDesk23 Sept 2026 · 15:23 ET4 min read
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Nasdaq Hits a Record as Chips Lead

A combined quick take on Tuesday's session: the Nasdaq closed at a record on AI and Muse momentum, financials and energy lagged for a second day, and markets stayed focused on Thursday's Trump-Xi summit

DDesk22 Sept 2026 · 22:20 ET2 min read
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