Meta’s AR ambitions meet reality, and California gets serious about AI safety…again

This week connected Equity, Anthony Ha, Kirsten Korosec, and Max Zeff unpack the biggest moves successful AI, robotics, and regulation. Listen to the afloat occurrence to perceive about:

• Meta Connect’s AR/AI vision and neural wristband control (plus the demos that didn’t spell arsenic planned)
• Jack Altman’s accelerated $275M fundraise and the Altman brothers’ expanding Silicon Valley influence
• The Waymo-Lyft concern bringing robotaxis to Nashville and the hunt for profitable AV models
• California’s caller AI information legislation and what it means for Big Tech
• Why investors whitethorn soon telephone this the “golden property of robotics“

Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts each Wednesday and Friday.
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