Meta Leans Into AI and Smart Glasses Amid Privacy Pushback
Mark Zuckerberg opened Meta’s Connect conference in Menlo Park on 23 September 2026 with a keynote built around AI-era products, weeks after the launch of the Muse agentic app and a month after an $18 billion settlement with US state attorneys general over children’s online privacy. Meta and EssilorLuxottica sold more than 7 million smart glasses in 2025 against about 2 million in the two previous years combined, with reported ambitions of 20 million a year. This article separates the product lines, the numbers and the privacy objections that actually hold.
