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June 23, 2026, 3:25 PM
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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 …
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.
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.
New York Times:
Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app called Arena, which would probably rely on video game-like points instead of money wagers  —  The experimental app, internally called “Arena,” would be independent of Facebook and Instagram.  It could compete for attention …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
LastPass notifies customers that their personal information and customer support case records were stolen during a hack at Canadian market research company Klue  —  Password manager maker LastPass is notifying customers that their personal information and customer support case records …
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, an agentic AI coworker for Slack that can learn context, give suggestions, and more, in beta for Claude Team and Enterprise tiers  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Claude Tag puts an always-on AI coworker inside Slack.  — Each Slack channel can get its own isolated Claude identity.
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. …
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 …
Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro, ASML, and others fall ~7%, and US tech and chip stocks drop  —  Global stocks sold off on Tuesday, led by deep losses for tech stocks following a losing session for the sector on Wall Street.
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.
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.
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
David Shepardson / Reuters:
The FCC says an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised $3.5B+, which will largely be used to fund the replacement of Chinese telecom equipment in the US  —  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Thursday an auction of wireless mid-band spectrum raised more than $3.5 billion …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
On the first day of their trial, two members of Scattered Spider plead guilty in the UK to charges stemming from a 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London  —  Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport …
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 …
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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
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 …
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

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Kevin Crowley / Bloomberg:
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