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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Meta unveils Meta Adventurer and Fury glasses, each priced at $299, its first under its own brand, and a $399 Starfire model in collaboration with Kylie Jenner — The company is also considering camera-free models in the future. — Meta Platforms Inc., which helped popularize smart glasses …
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| Meta Newsroom: |
Meta says Meta Glasses are its first AI glasses to launch with Meta AI powered by Muse Spark, and come in a range of color and lens combinations for 26 styles — Glasses are the most exciting hardware category of the AI era — the ideal device to experience an all-day AI assistant that understands the world from your perspective.
More: CNBC, TechCrunch, PCMag, Android Authority, and The Tech Portal
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Meta Fury, Meta Adventurer, and Meta Glasses by Kylie have EssilorLuxottica stamped on the inside; Meta executives say dropping “Ray-Ban” helps lower the price — For the past three years, “Meta” and “Ray-Ban” have been synonymous in the smart glasses space. Not anymore.| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
Meta's Starfire glasses with Kylie Jenner include a tiny gemstone on the lens, a metal nose pad to prevent absorbing makeup, and an AI version of Kylie's voice — The new Meta-branded glasses have the same camera, microphones, and chatbot as the Ray-Bans. They come in three styles, one of which was codesigned with Kylie Jenner.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present — Administration set an ambitious new 2028 target for a system that can conduct scientific research
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tencent is negotiating exits from minority investments in game studios in Japan, such as Tokyo-traded Marvelous, as it reassesses its global portfolio — Tencent Holdings Ltd. is negotiating exits from several game studio investments in Japan, including Tokyo-traded Marvelous Inc. … | Chloe Taylor / CNBC: |
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading — Global stocks sold off on Tuesday, led by deep losses for tech stocks following a losing session for the sector on Wall Street.| Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: |
The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation — The Ethereum Foundation is cutting roughly 20% of its workforce, eliminating 54 positions as part of a broad restructuring …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many from his time running YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10+ companies have discussed business deals with OpenAI — OpenAI CEO's holdings in Helion and other companies have seen significant upswings since the AI giant explored or sealed tie-ups with Altman-linked startups| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, saying the AI video model can generate up to 30-second clips from up to 50 reference materials, up from 12 for Seedance 2.0 — ByteDance on Tuesday unveiled Seedance 2.5, its new AI video generation model, at a conference in Beijing.
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
New York-based crypto analytics startup Allium raised a $40M Series B led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and others — Blockchains are public databases, but that doesn't mean they're legible. Even experts struggle to read their complicated strings of letters, numbers, and transactions.
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| Guinevere Grant / Bloomberg: |
Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its “Xoogler” alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is backing a new incubator for former employees building artificial intelligence startups …
More: The Next Web
| Financial Times: |
OpenAI debuts at Cannes Lions, pitching its new ChatGPT ad business and Codex to marketers, as it tries to build a multibillion-dollar business ahead of its IPO — Lossmaking AI group is presenting at Cannes Lions advertising conference for the first time — OpenAI is making its debut …
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| Don Clark / New York Times: |
Top500: China's Arm-based LineShine passes the US' El Capitan by 20%+ as the world's fastest supercomputer, the first time China has taken the crown since 2017 — A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world's fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units.
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| Dinesh Nair / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50B from regional sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds, and others to accelerate spending on AI deals — Abu Dhabi's MGX has raised close to $50 billion from regional and global investors to accelerate spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure …
More: The Next Web, Axios, and Semafor
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, address trained medical staff shortages, improve patient care, and more — The chipmaker's head of healthcare argues AI can ease many of the sector's ills, including reducing medics' workload and tackling the shortage of trained staff| Wired: |
Meta says it is pausing its employee-tracking program meant for training AI models after internal security issues exposed sensitive data from employees' laptops — Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
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| Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
Menlo raised $3B for funds dedicated to backing AI startups, its largest fundraising to date; sources say Menlo's Anthropic stake is currently worth nearly $14B — In 2024, Menlo Ventures made the risky decision to raise $500 million to invest in Anthropic PBC, then an underdog rival to OpenAI …
More: Axios, Menlo Ventures, blocksandfiles, and Telecompaper
| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
SCOTUS ends a suit alleging Cisco aided China's Falun Gong persecution, further limiting a law used to hold corporations liable for overseas human rights abuses — The U.S. Supreme Court further limited the reach of a federal law used to hold corporations liable for human rights abuses committed abroad …
More: Associated Press, Bloomberg Law, and New York Times
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Valve says the Steam Machine, its living room Linux PC, costs $1,049 for 512GB without a controller to $1,428 for 2TB with a controller, available from June 29 — You can register your interest starting today, and the first emails letting people buy one will go out on June 29th.
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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