Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Thursday, August 21st, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. What is going on at MetaI, story number 77? A deeper look at that new chip that Google unveiled with the pixel phones yesterday and what that could suggest for Google's hardware strategy going forward and an interesting startup that is making AI smart glasses happen now.

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card, even though we have been speculating about this as it's been happening.

I know at some point I said that if Mark Zuckerberg signals he's slowing spending on AI or

just evidences, some sort of cooling enthusiasm for AI generally, well, look out for people's fears

of bubbles popping. And well, for like the third day in a row now, Zuck is delivering

headlines like this. The journal says that META froze hiring in its AI division last week,

with sources saying new hires now need Alexander Wang's permission. Quote,

the hiring freeze, which went into effect last week and coincides with a broader restructuring of the AI group,

also prohibits current employees from moving across teams inside the division.

The duration of the freeze wasn't communicated internally.

There might be some exceptions to the block on external hires,

but they would need permission from META's chief AI officer Alexander Wang, the people said.

A meta spokesperson confirmed the freeze, characterizing it as, quote, basic organizational planning,

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