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Meta unveils $399+ Oakley smart glasses with all of the Ray-Ban glasses' features, plus 3K video recording, IPX4 water resistance, and double the battery life — 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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Forums: r/OpenAI, r/business, and r/singularity
| 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 … | Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
Australia's government-backed tech trial finds checking a user's age is technologically possible, clearing the way for a social media ban for under-16s in 2025 — Australia's world-first social media ban for under-16s moved closer to implementation after a key trial found that checking … | 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: an official told Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC that the US wants to revoke waivers that let them ship American chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories — Move isn't meant to escalate trade tensions, White House officials say — A U.S. official told top global semiconductor makers … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Source: The Bell. More: Sam Lover, Forbes, PhoneArena, HotHardware, SammyGuru, Android Authority, Android Police, SamMobile, and Android Headlines
| 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
| 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 … | Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Foxconn plans to manufacture iPhone enclosures in India by establishing a new unit in Tamil Nadu; only Tata currently makes iPhone enclosures in India — Foxconn is planning to manufacture iPhone enclosures in India, establishing a new unit in Tamil Nadu.| Bloomberg: |
How JD.com is taking on China's food-delivery duopoly with viral stunts, no commissions, and deep discounts, prompting Meituan and Alibaba's Ele.me to respond — One unusually warm evening in April, Richard Liu revved his scooter through Beijing's traffic-snarled streets alongside other delivery workers …
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