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June 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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
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 …
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions, and it's unclear how many times the deadline can be extended  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Korean media: Google switching from Samsung's foundry to TSMC for its upcoming Pixel 10 series' Tensor G5 chip was a “shock” and is a wake-up call for Samsung
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 …
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.

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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
A judge orders a temporary halt to the Paramount-WBD merger, as a 12-state coalition, led by California, argues it would violate federal antitrust law

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Unsealed docs: the DOJ sought phone records of NYT reporters and their relatives in an extraordinary attempt to unmask sources of NYT's Air Force One coverage

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey nets $124.5M at the domestic box office and $264.1M worldwide on its opening weekend; Universal spent ~$250M to make the film

More News

Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Tesla's robotaxi service will launch in Austin with just ~10 cars that are geofenced to avoid challenging intersections and monitored by backup teleoperators
Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
The Irish Data Protection Commission says Meta told it that WhatsApp ads won't launch in the EU “until 2026”; WhatsApp confirms that ads will arrive “gradually”

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
European satellite company Eutelsat raised €1.35B, including €717M from France, to build out its satellite fleet to rival Starlink; France's stake is almost 30%
Peggy Corlin / Euronews:
The EU says Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately after their 60-day DMA grace period ends on June 26, following €500M and €200M fines in April
Guillaume Grallet / Le Point:
Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100+ children he has fathered, and more
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