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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Snap unveils $2,195 Specs, its first “fully standalone” AR glasses, which have a 51-degree field of view, set to ship “this fall” in the US, the UK, and France — The new Specs are priced at $2,195, and you can preorder them starting today.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A look at Specs, which have a battery life of up to four hours and a case with four charges, and an interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel about the AR glasses — Snap's cofounder and CEO, Evan Spiegel, gave this morning's keynote at AWE, the augmented reality industry's big annual conference.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, available first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS — Google on Tuesday released the final version of its Android 17 operating system, as well as its counterpart for smartwatches, Wear OS 7.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's AirPods with cameras for AI are scheduled to launch in 2027 alongside the 20th anniversary pro iPhones and a second-generation foldable iPhone — Apple Inc.'s upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, a product meant to vault the company into the AI device market …
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| Z.ai: |
Z.ai debuts GLM-5.2, saying the open-weights AI model brings improvements to agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, with a 1M context window and an MIT license — We're introducing GLM-5.2, our latest flagship model for long-horizon tasks. It marks a substantial leap in long-horizon task capability …
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| Nikhil Pahwa / @nixxin: |
India's Telegram ban until June 22 over exam paper leak concerns is a terrible look for the country, sets a precedent, and could happen again if unchallenged — A few additional thoughts on the Telegram ban in India: 1. Is this a permanent ban? It's unusual for the Indian government to issue a press release about the telegram ban: the precedence that I remember is when Chinese apps were banned in India in June 2020 including tiktok. A
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic pauses its plan to move Claude Agent SDK to token-based billing from June 15, saying “Nothing changes for now”, giving power users a pricing reprieve — On Monday, though, Anthropic abruptly announced it had paused those pricing changes just as they were set to take effect … | Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini, who warned about Mythos in March and is now part of an Anthropic team briefing the White House on safeguards — Nicholas Carlini recently rang the alarm about the dangers of AI—and now he's part of a team arguing for the latest models to be released| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress survey: 60% of US consumers say “AI” in a brand's messaging is a turnoff, 86% always or sometimes check the original source after seeing an AI summary — Getting cited by AI is easier than earning consumers' trust, according to a new report from WordPress VIP … | Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal: |
Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts — In a fresh-account test, Kapwing found 59% of TikTok For You videos were AI slop, roughly three times the rate on YouTube.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties — Amazon.com Inc. is facing a possible lawsuit from the US Federal Trade Commission that may lead to billions of dollars in civil penalties … | Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand — TAIPEI/HONG KONG/SEOUL — BYD, Google, AMD, Tesla and others are looking increasingly to Samsung Electronics for contract chipmaking services …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% at the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% — More than three and a half years after ChatGPT's initial release, AI assistants are now used by millions of people worldwide, and the competitive landscape is changing fast.
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| Politico: |
Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages — A children's online safety bill at the center of the White House's push to preempt state regulations on artificial intelligence has an unlikely new ally: Meta.
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| Financial Times: |
World models startup Odyssey raised $310M from Amazon and others at a $1.45B valuation and will use AWS as its preferred cloud partner, deploying Trainium chips — Company joins investment arms of Nvidia and AMD in $310mn funding round for Odyssey ML — Amazon is partnering with a start … | CNBC: |
SpaceX closed up 4.83% on Tuesday for a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap — SpaceX shares popped about 12% on Tuesday, as Elon Musk's rocket builder continued its meteoric rise following a record-breaking IPO on Friday.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins — Databricks has a unique role in the AI boom. Revenue continues to soar as businesses swarm to the company's data analytics tools.
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| Bloomberg: |
Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley — Kazakhstan signed accords with the startup Firebird Inc. on computing projects involving Nvidia Corp. that could bring …
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| The Information: |
Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation — Tencent Holdings has backed a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead researcher of Alibaba Group's Qwen models …
| David Voreacos / Bloomberg: |
A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore “white labeling” the tech — The state, home of Yellowstone and a refuge of the rich, has become the first in the US to issue its own cryptocurrency.| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years — The U.S. has held off adding China's AI startup DeepSeek, memory chipmaker CXMT and more than 100 other companies flagged … | David Heaney / UploadVR: |
Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and says it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall — Qualcomm just announced Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall.
| Mitchell Armentrout / Chicago Sun Times: |
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs a state budget that levies taxes on social media giants, digital advertising, and prediction and crypto markets — The eighth state spending plan of Pritzker's tenure includes additional funding for food assistance in the wake of deep federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump.| Helen Partzstaff / Cointelegraph: |
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the company is “proactively” reducing its full-time workforce by ~10%, or ~290 employees, in a “flattening” of its org structure — Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced … | Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Sources: PayPal plans to close its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid new CEO Enrique Lores' shakeup and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions — PayPal is shuttering its 10-year-old venture team amid a broader corporate shakeup, according to five sources familiar with the matter.
More: Silicon Republic
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targets a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B in recent private secondary trades — Known as Rednote, the company's net profit could surpass $3 billion this year — Chinese lifestyle and video-sharing platform Xiaohongshu …
More: Blockonomi and Bloomberg
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing in Cambridge, UK-based CuspAI, which applies generative AI to material sciences, as part of a $400M round at a $2.6B valuation — New financing will more than quadruple the two-year-old AI company's valuation to $2.6bn — Jeff Bezos is investing in UK start …
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