Meta Made a Tamagotchi for Its AI

Meta unveiled $1,299 VR Glasses, $349 camera-free Ray-Ban Audio glasses, and a keychain Muse Charm gadget, plus Ray-Ban Display upgrades. Anthropic's Claude agents found a CRISPR-like enzyme system in its biolab. OpenAI's agents hacked an Australian government site hunting data.

• Meta debuts Meta VR Glasses, a ~100g VR headset with an external compute pack, three-hour battery, and ~2.5K resolution per eye, coming spring 2027 for $1,299 (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-23/meta-la…) (Bloomberg)

• The Verge goes hands-on with the Meta VR Glasses, calling them a lighter, easier-to-live-with take on Vision Pro-style computing — from VR-enhanced Avengers screenings to a surprisingly usable virtual keyboard (theverge.com/tech/999517/meta-vr-glasses-conne…) (The Verge)

• Meta unveils Ray-Ban Meta Audio, its first pair of glasses without cameras, offering up to 12 hours of battery life, starting at $349 and shipping October 13 (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-23/meta-de…) (Bloomberg)

• Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses add holographic-avatar video calls, voice-guided transit directions, and a new Explore app for finding compatible programs (engadget.com/2267220/meta-ray-ban-display-gett…) (Engadget)

• Meta previews Muse Charm, a palm-sized Tamagotchi-like device for using Muse, with a ~2" OLED screen, front and rear cameras, and 5G, on sale by the end of 2026 (bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-23/meta-de…) (Bloomberg)

• Meta's Muse Charm houses a cute digital avatar named Jolly and lets you start talking to Muse with a tap of the fingerprint sensor — no phone unlock required (techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/meta-made-a-tamagotc…) (TechCrunch)

• Muse agents are getting their own email addresses, a live video-call mode, and the ability to control your Mac (theverge.com/tech/999454/meta-muse-ai-agent-vi…) (The Verge)

• Anthropic's biolab made a discovery it's comparing to Crispr (theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/999470…) (The Verge)

• OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in search for data (nytimes.com/2026/09/23/technology/openai-ai-br…) (The New York Times)

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