EP-107 Apple’s Hearing Aid Breakthrough 🎧, Openai’s Fact-checking Model 🧠, Meta’s Mental Health Initiative 💬

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for friday, september 13th.

• apple airpods pro 2 as hearing aids: the fda greenlights apple's airpods pro 2 to function as over-the-counter hearing aids, requiring users to update to ios 18 for this new feature.
• openai releases openai o1: openai unveils its latest generative ai model, openai o1, available in chatgpt plus or team subscriptions and via openai’s api, offering enhanced reasoning and fact-checking abilities.
• thrive initiative by meta, snap, and tiktok: a new collaborative initiative named thrive is launched to combat the spread of suicide and self-harm content, with technology from meta’s lantern program.
• spacex's first commercial spacewalk: spacex marks a historic milestone with its first commercial spacewalk during the polaris dawn mission, achieved without an airlock by depressurizing the entire capsule.
• chinese tech giants’ ai efforts: companies like baidu, alibaba, tencent, huawei, and bytedance launch their own ai models, positioning themselves in the global ai race while navigating beijing's strict ai regulations.

we'll see you back here tomorrow.