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June 20, 2025, 12:25 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
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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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