Harvard students built an app that pairs with Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses to automatically identify anyone you see in real time.

It’s a glimpse of a future where augmented reality isn’t just about filters—it’s about instantly turning the world into a database.

Here’s what else is shaking up AI this week:

📈 How are companies using AI?​

➜ Your Cart, Now Conversational. PayPal’s Honey is moving into AI. The features will provide AI chatbot users, who are researching items they want to purchase, Honey’s product recommendations, pricing, and access to deals.

Yahoo Finance

➜ Sci-Fi on Your Wrist. New Meta Rayban’s now come with an EMG wristband for intuitive, gesture-based control of the AI features and in-lens display that can read finger motions down to a millimeter. It’s like skipping straight to Minority Report-style computing.

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➜ Onboarding in Hours, Not Days. Nuvei has launched its first AI agent designed to accelerate client onboarding, handling verification and compliance tasks in real time. For customers, that could mean going live in hours instead of days.

Nuvei

➜ From Rides to Raw Data. Uber just acquired a data-labeling startup to bolster its AI capabilities and even resell AI services to external clients. It’s a shift from just rides to becoming a data infrastructure player.

Bloomberg

➜ Feeds That Know You. Communify, an app powered by AI, adapts to individual user behavior, aiming to make personalization as engaging as TikTok feeds. The bet: people stay longer when content feels made just for them.

Finextra

💡 What are the nerds up to?

➜ Instant Checkout Inside Chat. AI-driven shopping is being piloted so users can browse, buy, and pay for items from platforms like Etsy or Shopify—all without leaving the conversation. It’s the beginning of chat as a shopping mall.
Retail Dive

➜ Coding, But With Vibes. A new enterprise tool blends low-code development with AI-powered coding suggestions. The goal: make building internal software feel more like collaboration than engineering.
TechCrunch

➜ AI-Friendly Wikipedia. Wikimedia is working on new infrastructure to make its massive datasets easier for both humans and AI systems to query. It’s a move to future-proof Wikipedia as an AI training and research backbone.
Daily.dev

➜ Agents That Code. A new update makes it even easier for an AI agent to spin up apps and scripts with minimal human input. It’s another step toward outsourcing full-stack coding to bots.
The Verge

➜ A Digital COO for Retail. Peak unveils a fresh suite of agentic AI tools designed to optimize inventory, demand forecasting, and production schedules. Think of it as an invisible operator quietly running the business.
Ecommerce News AU

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