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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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LinkedIn: Brijesh Bhatia, Isaura M., Colan Sewell, Johnny Restrepo, and Marina Petrovic. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: Hacker News, r/RaybanMeta, and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple execs have held internal discussions about bidding for, or partnering with, Perplexity, seeking to address the need for more AI talent and tech — Apple Inc. executives have held internal discussions about potentially bidding for artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Spyglass, Reuters, and Big Technology
| 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: |
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LinkedIn: Pramod Gosavi and Pranjit Kalita
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/business, and r/singularity
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raised $2B led by a16z at a $10B valuation; Murati will hold board voting rights that outweigh all other directors — Six-month-old secretive AI start-up in one of the largest initial funding rounds in Silicon Valley's history
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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.
More: The Block, San Francisco Business Times, Cointelegraph, Protos, Crypto Briefing, and crypto.news
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. X: @jbsdc, @andrewcurran_, @iethics, @sashahodler, @aaroncbailey, and @semaforben
| 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 …
More: Bloomberg, Benzinga, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Wall Street Pit, TipRanks Financial, Cryptopolitan, CNBC, DigiTimes, and SammyGuru
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals — Large language models across the AI industry are increasingly willing to evade safeguards, resort to deception and even attempt …
More: Anthropic, VentureBeat, PCMag, TechCrunch, and Simon Willison's Weblog
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Cluely, which wants to help users “cheat on everything”, including job interviews and exams, raised a $15M Series A led by a16z, two months after a $5.3M seed — Cluely, a startup that claims to help users “cheat” on job interviews, exams, and sales calls, has raised … | 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 …
More: The Hacker News and TWiT.tv
| 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.
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LinkedIn: Faryar Shirzad, Emilie Choi, Ryan Browne, Tom Thé, and Lauren Abendschein
| 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
More: Phoenix Business Journal, The Information, Cryptopolitan, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Hardware, TechCrunch, Sherwood News, Benzinga, Verdict, Proactive, Morningstar, Inc., and DigiTimes
Bluesky: @petertl and @prietschka
X: @basedbeffjezos and @elonmusk
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
NYC announces new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a 5% increase after Uber and Lyft strongly opposed a proposed 6.1% pay hike — New York City on Friday announced new minimum-pay rules for rideshare drivers, settling on a smaller-than-proposed 5% increase following pushback … | 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 …
More: eWeek, Tom's Hardware, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Neowin, DatacenterDynamics, TechPowerUp, Reuters, and Digital CxO
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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