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This week, Meta removed facial recognition code from its Meta AI companion app after reporting by WIRED revealed that the company had already embedded substantial portions of an unreleased facial recognition system into software downloaded by more than 50 million users.

The feature, known internally as “NameTag,” was designed to identify people captured by Meta’s smart glasses and compare their biometric signatures against databases stored on users’ devices.

Learn more: https://innotechtoday.com/meta-removes-facial-recognition-code-from-smart-glasses-app-following-privacy-backlash/

The FIFA World Cup has always served as a showcase for football’s best players. In 2026, it will also serve as a demonstration of how deeply technology has become embedded in modern sport.

Many of the systems debuting at World Cup 2026 have been tested in previous FIFA competitions, but never at this scale. Artificial intelligence is assisting production teams and referees. Embedded sensors inside the official match ball communicate with tracking systems throughout the stadium. Digital replicas of venues help organizers model crowd movement and operations before fans arrive.

Learn more: https://innotechtoday.com/8-technologies-turning-fifa-world-cup-2026-into-the-most-advanced-sporting-event-ever-held/

Written by Aron Vaughan

For much of the past three years, artificial intelligence has been sold as a straightforward business proposition. Automate repetitive work, streamline operations, reduce labor costs, and increase productivity.

Now, a growing number of companies are discovering that AI’s economics look very different once it moves beyond pilot projects and into daily operations.

Read more here: https://innotechtoday.com/ais-expensive-reckoning-marked-by-rising-token-costs-shrinking-workforces-search-for-roi/

For more than two decades, Google’s dominance of search has been one of the defining facts of the internet economy. Businesses built entire industries around search rankings. Publishers structured newsrooms around search traffic. Marketers spent billions learning how to appear on the first page of results.

Now, as Google appeals a landmark U.S. antitrust ruling that found the company maintained an illegal search monopoly, the legal battle is unfolding against a backdrop that few could have imagined when the case began: the search engine itself is transforming into an artificial intelligence platform.

Read the full article written by Aron Vaughan here: https://innotechtoday.com/googles-monopoly-appeal-is-really-about-the-future-of-ai-search/