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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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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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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Forums: r/BetterOffline and Slashdot
| 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 — Son envisions a version of the vast manufacturing hub of China's Shenzhen that would bring back high-tech manufacturing to the US …
More: TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, PYMNTS.com, Benzinga, Reuters, Verdict, Morningstar, Inc., Proactive, Sherwood News, and DigiTimes
| 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
| 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 … | 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 …
More: The Guardian, Reuters, The Register, Cryptopolitan, Japan Today, Information Age, Age Assurance Technology Trial, The Senior, The Conversation, ABC, and Biometric Update. Forums: Slashdot
| 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: Bloomberg, DatacenterDynamics, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, Digital CxO, and Reuters. Bluesky: @dandelionwine11
| 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, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, and DigiTimes
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Source: The Bell. More: Sam Lover, Forbes, PhoneArena, HotHardware, SammyGuru, Android Authority, Android Police, SamMobile, and Android Headlines
| 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.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Apple Must, MacTech.com, Business Standard, Neowin, Inc42 Media, The Hans India, and DigiTimes
| 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 — Autonomous ride-hailing service to make tentative debut in Austin, Texas, with only about 10 cars
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X: @realdanodowd, @joshuaogundu, and @rakeshsfnyc
Forums: r/electricvehicles, r/RealTesla, and r/teslastockholders
| 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 …
More: MacDailyNews, South China Morning Post, and DigiTimes
| 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 …
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X: @bradsherman, @trumpdailyposts, @adamscochran, @danprimack, @brianstelter, @pkafka, @jonahdispatch, @frankluntz, @chrisfralic, @michaelpfreeman, @heathmayo, @hoeglaw, @charlescwcooke, @reichlinmelnick, @redsteeze, @shiralazar, @loewylawfirm, @joshrogin, @jacklgoldsmith, @thefp, @gordongchang, @adamkovac, @wexler, @rakeshsfnyc, and @wexler
Forums: r/politics and r/inthenews
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