Meta’s new glasses, Huawei’s chip play & more (September 18, 2025)

Good morning!

From Meta’s push into AI wearables to Huawei’s global chip challenge, today’s stories show how AI is colliding with politics, hardware, and consumer life.

Let's dig in👇

🚨 Today's Headlines

👓 Meta unveils new smart glasses with a display and wristband controller
Meta unveils new smart glasses at Connect 2025, pushing deeper into wearables. The glasses combine AI assistants, live translation, and gesture control via a wristband. If adoption sticks, this could be a turning point for mainstream AI-powered computing.

📊 White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits
White House officials reportedly frustrated as Anthropic resists expanding AI use in policing. The standoff highlights tension between safety, ethics, and government pressure. It’s a reminder that alignment debates aren’t just academic—they’re political.

⚡ Executives at xAI clashed with Musk advisers before departing
Executives at xAI reportedly left after tensions over the company’s direction boiled over. The disputes highlight deeper challenges facing Elon Musk’s AI venture as it tries to balance rapid innovation with executive alignment.

🔬 Science & Strategy

🧠 AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis at All
AI Psychosis Is Rarely Psychosis reframes concerns about AI “hallucinations.” Researchers say most cases resemble confusion, not clinical psychosis, highlighting the need for better terminology.

🇨🇳 Huawei unveils AI chip roadmap to challenge Nvidia’s lead
Huawei unveils new AI chip tech, signaling a direct challenge to U.S. dominance. The roadmap highlights custom silicon designed for both training and inference at massive scale. If successful, Huawei could shift the balance of the global AI hardware race and weaken Nvidia’s grip on the market.

🧴 Nanoleaf made a vibrating light therapy skincare wand
Nanoleaf made a vibrating light, merging wellness and smart-tech. The LED brand best known for wall panels is now targeting the beauty market. AI-guided personalization could make skincare another frontier for consumer AI.

🧰 Tools of the Day

→ Sudo AI – One API for any LLM: routing, context, and monetization
→ HeyGen Video Agent – Turn your prompt into a finished, publish-ready video
→ AP2 – The open protocol for agentic commerce

✍️ Prompt of the Day

Learning Path Designer:
"Design a comprehensive learning path for mastering [skill/subject] in 90 days, including resources, milestones, and practice exercises."

⚡ Quick Hits

→ Capgemini M&A Jumbo Debt Raise is drawing big investor bids
→ Anti-Trump protesters take aim at ‘naive’ US-UK AI deal
→ Groq raises $6.9B to compete with Nvidia in AI chips
→ Irregular raises $80M to secure frontier AI models

🧾 TLDR

Meta’s glasses and Huawei’s chip roadmap headline a day of shifts in AI hardware and geopolitics, while Anthropic and xAI face mounting internal and external pressures.

Cheers,
David