Charlie Fink is a Consultant, Columnist, Author, Producer, Podcaster, and Adjunct, covering AI, XR, and the Metaverse for Forbes. He is the author of the critically acclaimed AR-enabled books Charlie Fink’s Metaverse (2017), and Convergence, How The World Will Be Painted With Data (2019). Fink teaches at Chapman University in Orange, CA, and ASU’s LA graduate program in emerging media.
Parable Raises $16.5 Million To Power AI Transformation With Real Data
CEO Adam Schwartz, CTO Clinton Robinson, CMO Steve Tam, and COO Alex Terrien.
Mag 7 Earnings, Nvidia’s $5 Trillion Moment, And Sesame’s $250 Million Bet
Mag 7 earnings drove market swings as Nvidia hit $5 trillion and Meta slumped. Meanwhile, AI startup Sesame, founded by Oculus veterans, raised $250 million to build smarter smart glasses.
Book Review: ‘The Future Of Storytelling’ By Charles Melcher
'The Future of Storytelling' explores how immersive, interactive, and AI-driven “living stories” are reshaping media, blending technology, creativity, and human connection.
Meta’s Display Glasses Are The Hot Demo Ticket, But Viture Lets You Actually See The Future
Viture’s $499 Luma XR display glasses hit Best Buy, while Meta’s new Ray-Ban Display smart glasses slowly expand in-store demos.
Robot Replacements, Galaxy XR, $133 Million Raised By General Intuition, ChatGPT’s Atlas Browser
Amazon automation threatens 500k jobs, Meta cuts 600 AI roles, Samsung debuts $1800 dollar Galaxy XR, GI raises $133m, OpenAI’s Atlas browser and Rocket’s $15m seed.
OpenAI-Backed Rply Organizes The Chaos Of Texting With Relationship Insights
OpenAI-backed NOX launches RPLY, an AI messaging assistant that organizes chaotic text threads into searchable insights.
Coral AI And Healthcare’s $450 Billion Paperwork Problem
Coral AI's bottom-up approach has resulted in a system that saves time for clinicians, insurers and patients.
Decart Brings Real-Time AI To Real-Time Creators At TwitchCon
At TwitchCon San Diego, Israeli startup Decart showcased real-time generative video with Geenee AR, letting streamers transform their live feeds instantly with AI.
Samsung Galaxy XR Launch, Epiminds, Flint AI Raise Seeds, Anduril Reveals EagleEye
Anduril unveils EagleEye MR helmet for infantry, Epiminds raises $6.6M for AI marketing agents, and Flint secures $5M to automate website creation.
Epiminds Raises $6.6 Million For AI Marketing Agents
Epiminds, founded by ex-Google and Spotify execs, raises $6.6 million from Lightspeed to build agent-based AI that automates workflows for advertising and marketing agencies.