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May 30, 2025, 9:05 AM

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Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems  —  The Facebook and Instagram parent is partnering with Anduril Industries to develop combat VR headsets for the Army
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
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Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft sidelines its native Xbox handheld to focus on Windows 11 gaming performance for third-party OEM devices, like an Asus model debuting in 2025  —  Xbox's handheld ambitions continue unabated, but the focus is shifting towards improving Windows 11 for third-party handhelds — for now.
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Meta says it has cut US content removal mistakes by half since its January policy changes, without broadly exposing users to more offensive content than before  —  Meta says loosening its enforcement policies earlier this year led to fewer erroneous takedowns on Facebook and Instagram …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Filing: the US SEC voluntarily dismissed its 2023 lawsuit against Binance and CZ that accused them of diverting customer funds, misleading investors, and more  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, a Thursday court filing shows.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating “pig butchering” crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims  —  The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called …
New York Times:
Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies  —  As Mr. Musk entered President Trump's orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025  —  AI dev platform Hugging Face continued its push into robotics on Thursday with the release of two new humanoid robots.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs  —  Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X's Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs, letting users craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more, available on the web, iOS, and Android for its Pro users  —  Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, on Thursday released Perplexity Labs, a tool for subscribers …
Reuters:
Letter: Synopsys tells staff to stop sales, services, and new orders in China to comply with new US export curbs, and pulls its annual and quarterly forecasts  —  Semiconductor design software firm Synopsys (SNPS.O) has told staff in China to halt services and sales in the country and stop taking …

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