Meta Thinks AI Belongs on Your Face

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Today we have:

👓 Meta Wants AI On Your Face

🚀How to Turn a Google Slides Deck Into a Video With Google Vids

🤝 Anthropic Wants Claude To Join Your Team

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

👓 Meta Wants AI On Your Face

Meta is expanding its wearable AI ambitions with a new smart glasses lineup designed to reach a broader audience. The focus isn't new hardware capabilities, but making AI-powered glasses cheaper and more accessible.

The Shift:

Three New Collections - The lineup includes Meta Adventurer, Meta Fury, and Meta Glasses by Kylie, offering 26 combinations of frames, lenses, and colors across different styles and price points.

The Celebrity Edition - The $399 Kylie version adds exclusive touches including an embedded gem, custom startup sounds, and the option to interact with Meta AI using Kylie Jenner's voice.

AI Built In - Powered by Meta's Muse Spark AI, the glasses support live translation, visual understanding, turn-by-turn navigation, and more natural voice interactions throughout the day.

Price Over Hardware - While the underlying hardware remains largely unchanged from previous generations, Meta's biggest shift is removing Ray-Ban and Oakley branding to bring entry pricing down to $299.

Meta appears less focused on selling luxury smart glasses and more focused on getting AI onto as many faces as possible. Lower prices, recognizable personalities, and built-in AI services suggest the company sees wearables as a key distribution channel for its broader AI ecosystem.

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🚀How to Turn a Google Slides Deck Into a Video With Google Vids

No camera. No studio. Just your existing presentation and a couple of clicks.

Step 1: Open Google Vids - Head to vids.new. It lives inside your Google Workspace, no new software to install.

Step 2: Import your Google Slides deck - Connect your presentation directly. Vids reads the content and automatically generates a storyboard and AI avatar script from your slides.

Step 3: Customize your avatar - Add a custom avatar to present your content. Direct it to walk, talk, and interact with objects by typing a plain-language prompt. No duration limits on the clips it generates.

Step 4: Generate voiceover in your language - Choose from 24 supported languages including Hindi, Arabic, Tamil, Telugu, Dutch, and Vietnamese. Vids generates the voiceover automatically from your script.

Step 5: Export and share - Your presentation is now a fully produced video, ready to send, publish, or use for product demos, sales pitches, or onboarding content.

One deck. 24 languages. No production crew. You can try Google Vids here.

🤝 Anthropic Wants Claude To Join Your Team

Anthropic is moving beyond one-on-one AI assistance and into workplace collaboration. With Claude Tag, teams can now treat Claude like a Slack teammate that handles tasks, tracks context, and follows work across conversations.

The Shift:

Just Tag Claude - Team members can assign work by mentioning @Claude in Slack, after which the AI breaks tasks into steps, gathers information, uses approved tools, and delivers results when complete.

Context That Sticks - Unlike traditional chat interactions, Claude builds understanding over time, learning about projects, discussions, and workflows across the channels and systems it can access.

Working Across Teams - Claude can pull information from connected tools and multiple Slack channels, helping teams complete work that normally requires jumping between conversations, documents, and systems.

Following Up Automatically - A new ambient mode lets Claude monitor ongoing work, retrieve relevant context from other channels, and surface tasks that may have stalled or need attention.

Most AI assistants wait for instructions and then disappear. Claude Tag pushes toward a different model: an AI teammate that stays embedded in the workflow, remembers context, and helps coordinate work across a team instead of just responding to individual prompts.

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🔨AI Tools for the Shift

🪵 Wuddy – Identifies wood species from a photo in seconds, making it useful for woodworkers, carpenters, students, and hobbyists.

🎬 BYFlux – Transforms static images into AI-generated video clips using leading models like Kling, Seedance, and Veo.

💎 Jewelry Model AI – Converts jewelry product photos into realistic on-model images for ecommerce, advertising, and social media content.

💍 FondPix – Turns everyday couple photos into elegant wedding-style portraits for invitations, announcements, albums, and keepsakes.

🎤 Acedly AI – Provides real-time interview and meeting assistance by surfacing relevant talking points and context in a private overlay visible only to you.

🚀Quick Shifts

🏠 Google Home is getting smarter at recognizing people, using cues like body size and clothing when faces aren’t visible. The update also adds richer AI camera descriptions, sound detection, and improved smart home health alerts. 

🤝 Superhuman is acquiring GPTZero, bringing AI content detection and authenticity verification into its AI assistant. 

🤖 Anthropic launched Claude Tag for Slack, letting teams assign work to @Claude directly in channels. The AI agent can analyze data, find business insights, write and merge code, and complete long-running tasks using company-approved tools and context. 

🧬 NVIDIA launched the BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, giving AI agents specialized tools for protein structure prediction, molecular docking, generative chemistry, and other drug discovery workflows to accelerate biomedical research and development. 

⚠️ Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned that AI agents could “destroy small businesses” by becoming the primary decision-makers in purchases, making it harder for smaller brands to influence buying choices and compete for visibility.

🧩 Prompt of the Day

LinkedIn Connection Requests That Start Real Conversations

Most LinkedIn connection requests are generic or immediately ask for something. The best messages create relevance, show genuine interest, and make it easy for the other person to accept.

Build relationships before making requests.

Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then fill in your networking details.

Prompt to paste

Write 5 LinkedIn connection request messages based on my [Insert role], [Insert target company or person type], and [Insert reason for connecting]. Create one message for each scenario: cold outreach to a recruiter, connecting with a potential mentor, following up after meeting at an event, reaching out to a hiring manager, and a warm follow-up with an existing contact. Keep each note concise, personalized, and natural while avoiding generic networking language or transactional requests. Focus on building genuine professional relationships and increasing connection acceptance rates.

🤳AI Shift of the Day

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