Loribelle Spirovski’s painting of didgeridoo/yidaki player wins the $5,000 prize decided by the public, with more than 40,000 votes cast
Artist Loribelle Spirovski has won the 2025 Archibald prize people’s choice category for her portrait of didgeridoo player William Barton, painted entirely with her fingers.
Spirovski, a four-time finalist at the Archibald prize, Australia’s most prestigious portraiture award, won the $5,000 people’s choice category, picked from the Archibald prize finalists each year by the public. This year 40,842 votes were cast for the people’s choice category, the highest number of votes ever received.
During Meta’s second-quarter earnings call, Zuckerberg doubled down on the idea that smart glasses will soon become the main way people interact with AI and replace other devices as “primary computing devices.”
“I continue to think that glasses are basically going to be the ideal form factor for AI,” he told investors on Wednesday’s call, adding that wearables with cameras, microphones, and displays will unlock new levels of utility.
“I think in the future, if you don’t have glasses that have AI or some way to interact with AI, I think you’d probably be at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg’s bullish sentiments on AI wearables echo his letter earlier in the day, which predicted the rise of “personal superintelligence.”
“Personal superintelligence that knows us deeply, understands our goals, and can help us achieve them will be by far the most useful,” wrote Zuckerberg in the letter published on Meta’s blog.
Meta has been ramping up its wearables business with its Ray-Ban smart glasses and a recent partnership with Oakley. The devices let users stream music, take photos, record video, and ask Meta’s chatbot about what they’re seeing.
Sales have been “accelerating,” according to the earnings report, and helped drive a revenue increase of nearly 5% for the Reality Labs division.
Meta has also been investing billions in acquiring AI talent, often from competing companies with jaw-dropping offers. Zuckerberg invested $15 billion in Scale AI to bring its CEO, Alexandr Wang, into the fold and lured at least four employees from OpenAI, one of whom is a co-creator of ChatGPT.
Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
