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Zuckerberg's creepy new Necklace Only a room full of male tech executives would disguise a live wire tap as a necklace and expect women to wear it to brunch. Leaked documents reveal Meta is building a new AI Pendant. Centers - New Meta hardware leaks (new AI pendant, glasses, AI agent, and a developer platform for its wearables) To get the technology, Mark quietly acquired a startup called limitless. He killed their 99 dollar smart necklace but absorbed their entire engineering team. That team perfected always on audio capture. Tech founders brand this as memory augmentation so you never forget a conversation. I call it a voluntary FBI Wire. It's giving court ordered people monitor, not Cartier. This exposes the ultimate Silicon Valley delusion. Limitless raised $33M from Sam Altman and A16z, shipped a wearable that records conversations, and built a customer base paying $19/month for always-on memory augmentation. Meta acquired them Friday and immediately stopped selling devices. The math tells you everything. Existing customers get 1 year free, then the product dies. No new sales. EU and UK users banned outright and forced to export data by December 19 or lose everything permanently. This wasn't about the product. It was about removing competition before OpenAI or Google could buy them. Meta already has Ray-Ban smart glasses doing 200%+ year-over-year growth with EssilorLuxottica. They hired Apple's design chief Alan Dye this week. They don't need a $99 pendant that records ambient conversation when they're building AR glasses that integrate with 3 billion social media accounts. What they needed was the team that figured out always-on audio capture, real-time transcription, and searchable memory at consumer price points. And they needed that team off the before someone else grabbed them. Tech founders have already burnt millions of dollars trying to invent smart jewelry. Hit follow to track the wearable wars. Is an AI Necklace a cool idea or an absolute privacy nightmare? Tell me below!