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June 23, 2026, 9:40 PM
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, each priced at $299, its first under its own brand, and a $399 Starfire model in collaboration with Kylie Jenner  —  The company is also considering camera-free models in the future.  —  Meta Platforms Inc., which helped popularize smart glasses …
Meta Newsroom:
Meta says Meta Glasses are its first AI glasses to launch with Meta AI powered by Muse Spark, and come in a range of color and lens combinations for 26 styles  —  Glasses are the most exciting hardware category of the AI era — the ideal device to experience an all-day AI assistant that understands the world from your perspective.
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice
New York Times:
Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers  —  The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram.  It could compete for attention …
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Claude Tag puts an always-on AI coworker inside Slack.  — Each Slack channel can get its own isolated Claude identity.
Mistral AI Blog:
Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model featuring structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, in 170 languages  —  Today, we're releasing Mistral OCR 4, featuring bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text.
Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index fell 10% on Tuesday, with SK Hynix and Samsung dropping over 12%; STMicro fell 8.5% in Paris, and ASML fell 6% in Amsterdam
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
LastPass notifies customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a hack at Canadian market research company Klue
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to $193.4M, net loss down 41% to $14M, and forecasts core gross margin to shrink in Q2; CBRS drops 8%+ after hours  —  - Cerebras reported financials for the first time since its IPO in May. … Cerebras said revenue almost doubled in the AI chipmaker's …
Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk:
The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation  —  The Ethereum Foundation is cutting roughly 20% of its workforce, eliminating 54 positions as part of a broad restructuring …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation  —  Company runs AI-powered factories that aim to speed up manufacturing  —  Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian Automation Inc …
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Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for $1.4B cash; top executives get $180M to stay for four years  —  Retail giant is paying $1.4 billion for Vibe.co, a company that enables advertising through connected TVs
Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg:
Menlo raised $3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest fundraising to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly $14B  —  In 2024, Menlo Ventures made the risky decision to raise $500 million to invest in Anthropic PBC, then an underdog rival to OpenAI …
The Information:
xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise $350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital  —  XLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for semiconductor manufacturing, is in talks to raise $350 million in funding from a pair …
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automate supply chain data management, raised a $35M Series C led by KDT, bringing its total funding to $85M  —  Orderful Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make supply chains more efficient, today announced that it has raised $35 million in funding.
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Bloomberg:
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio  —  Tencent Holdings Ltd. is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous Inc. …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, saying the AI video model can generate up to 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0  —  ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing.

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From Mediagazer

Rajeev Syal / The Guardian:
A UK jury convicts two Iranians of assisting Iranian intelligence in a plan to “eliminate” journalists at London-based Persian broadcaster Iran International

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Bill Simmons and Spotify canceled a ChatGPT partnership after audience backlash; Ringer hosts Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins had voiced unease on air

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
RSL rebrands as The Internet Licensing Collective and signs Yahoo as the first licensee of its new collective AI content licensing model

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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
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Don Clark / New York Times:
Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine passes the US' El Capitan by 20%+ as the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China has taken the crown since 2017
Chris Gillett / Works in Progress Magazine:
How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in US power grids, and a look at what fixes the electricity infrastructure may need to become fit for the future
Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present
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