Insta360 eyes split-battery AI glasses; Anthropic signs $11.6B Akamai compute deal
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-26
Industry daily digest highlights:
- Insta360 (Arashi Vision) developing AI glasses: A patent for a split-battery wearable design places the battery off-head to reduce weight, diverging from mainstream temple-integrated batteries.
- Thailand's exports jump 24.3% in August, the fastest in 56 months, driven by AI-fueled electronics demand, which accounts for nearly a third of total exports.
- DensityAI, founded by ex-Tesla Dojo engineers, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $10B valuation, claiming AWS will purchase chips if performance targets are met, with a16z in talks to lead.
- Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live with real-time avatars, native speech-to-speech across 97 languages with dynamic lip-sync, available in Gemini Enterprise.
- Anthropic signed a 7-year, $11.6B compute deal with Akamai for CPU capacity plus warrants ($111.33/share, convertible to 7.7M shares), expanding on an earlier $1.8B agreement.
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