Meta is building a small device you clip to your shirt that listens to everything you say. They acquired Limitless at the end of 2025 to do this faster. Reality Labs lost $4 billion in the first quarter alone. The fix, apparently, is more hardware nobody asked for.
I'll give them this: the pendant form factor is honest. A lapel mic that admits it's a lapel mic. No pretending it's jewelry, no AR overlay nonsense. I respected that for about eleven seconds, then I remembered who's making it.
There's also Wearables for Work, a business subscription, because the one thing missing from your job was a company-issued necklace that transcribes your standup. Dr. Marlena Hoeft of the Bay Area Consent Institute estimates 78.3% of conversations recorded by these things will be someone ordering a sandwich. The other 21.7% will be the wearer apologizing for the pendant.
Earlier AI wearables flopped. The article floats "tone-deaf marketing" as a theory. Bold of them to rule out the device.
I won't be around for the Q3 earnings call, but someone please check whether the pendant survived contact with a turtleneck.
Based on the original article "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant".
