A San Francisco startup called Subvocal has launched glasses that type out whatever you mouth without speaking, at up to 200 words a minute.
Low-power radio signals and AI track how facial muscles shift as the wearer mouths words. That lets people write emails or prompt AI tools without making a sound.
Founded in February by Aarush Yadav and Arnav Kumar, the company has raised $1.3 million. The glasses cost $699, or $499 for early preorders, with deliveries expected from March 2027.
AI-related financing now makes up about a quarter of bank lending growth to companies in the euro zone, the European Central Bank's chief economist Philip Lane said.
Lane noted that credit has stayed robust despite higher interest rates and an oil price shock. Without AI, company loan growth would be 3% a year instead of 4%, even though AI sectors are a small part of the economy.
He would prefer more investment funded through equity, which could let AI-native firms expand faster. The ECB is expected to raise rates again at its December meeting.
Sachin Tendulkar has taken a non-controlling stake in Recykal, the Indian waste management technology firm.
His investment extends the $23 million round Recykal closed in June. The company will use the money to strengthen its tech platform, expand its Deposit Return System for packaging waste, and grow internationally.
Recykal's goal is to change the habits of a billion people, and Tendulkar said he was drawn in by how technology tackled a daily problem.
SpaceX plans to invest more than $74 billion across two AI supercomputing campuses, one in Texas and one in Arizona.
The Texas facility at Starbase, estimated at over $24 billion, will sit on about 444 acres near Brownsville and generate its own power off the public grid. The project has already created over 3,000 construction jobs.
The roughly $50 billion Arizona campus in Cochise County could scale up to 6 gigawatts, though it still needs county approvals. The Starbase city commission will weigh a property tax break for the Texas project on December 9.
