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June 20, 2025, 11:05 AM

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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.
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 …
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:
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 …
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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