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Meta unveils $399+ Oakley smart glasses with all of the Ray-Ban glasses' features, plus 3K video recording and double the battery life, available in summer — The new lineup starts at $399 and captures 3K video. … Meta is announcing its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley.
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous — THE SCOOP — Reddit is considering using World ID, the verification system based on iris-scanning Orbs whose parent company was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta held discussions with Perplexity about a possible takeover before moving ahead with a $14.3B investment in Scale AI — The two companies couldn't come to an agreement and decided not to pursue the deal, said the people, who asked not to be named as the details of the talks aren't public.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Sources: Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence earlier in 2025; after Ilya Sutskever rebuffed the offer, Zuckerberg moved to recruit SSI CEO Daniel Gross — When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg poached Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang last week as part of a $14.3 billion investment …
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LinkedIn: Pramod Gosavi and Pranjit Kalita
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/business, and r/singularity
| Christine Wang / Axios: |
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says Google's ratio of pages crawled per visitor sent to a publisher fell from 2:1 10 years ago to 18:1; for OpenAI, it's 1,500:1 — Publishers face an existential threat in the AI era and need to take action to make sure they are fairly compensated for their content …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Masayoshi Son is pitching Trump officials and TSMC on a Shenzhen-like $1T AI and robotics manufacturing hub in Arizona, codenamed Project Crystal Land — Musk's xAI Sparks New EU Scrutiny Ahead of Potential X Penalty — Iran-Israel Conflict Spreads to Hacks on Banks, Crypto
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI hires Karandeep Anand, former Meta VP of Business Products, as CEO, 10 months after Google hired away the startup's co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer — Character.AI, the Google-backed AI chatbot provider with tens of millions of monthly active users, announced on Friday that Karandeep Anand …
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Sources: Foxconn and Nvidia are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory in Houston by Q1 2026 to produce Nvidia AI servers — Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW) and U.S. artificial intelligence chips maker Nvidia (NVDA.O) are in talks to deploy humanoid robots at a new Foxconn factory …
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| Financial Times: |
The BBC threatens Perplexity with legal action for allegedly training its “default AI model” using BBC content; Perplexity calls the BBC's claims “manipulative” — British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups
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| Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: |
Israel urges its citizens to turn off their home cameras, saying Iran is tapping into security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence for attacks — Iran is tapping into private security cameras in Israel to gather real-time intelligence about its adversary … | Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Coinbase says it has secured a MiCA license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the EU, and will shift its European base from Ireland to Luxembourg — Coinbase has secured a license from Luxembourg to offer crypto services across the European Union and will make the country its central hub in the region.
More: Coinbase, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, NFTgators, Coinspeaker, Cryptopolitan, CryptoNinjas, BeInCrypto, Bitcoin Magazine, Irish Independent, The Crypto Times, Watcher Guru, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, Blockonomi, and crypto.news. LinkedIn: Ryan Browne
| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Snap acquires Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students, and says 80% of US high schoolers attend schools that support Saturn — Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app for high school and college students. The company didn't disclose the terms of the deal but said that close …
More: TechCrunch and Blockchain.News
| Ben Dickson / VentureBeat: |
Developers criticize Google for its decision to hide raw reasoning tokens, essential for debugging complex AI workflows, of its flagship model Gemini 2.5 Pro — Google's recent decision to hide the raw reasoning tokens of its flagship model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, has sparked a fierce backlash …
More: GlobalData
| Axios: |
Silicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared because of a US tax law Section 174 change in 2017 — Silicon Valley is pushing senators to follow the House's lead in reviving a favorable tax benefit that disappeared several years ago.
X: @danprimack
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