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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.
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has suffered a breach, for which cybercrime group Icarus takes credit; Jamf, HackerOne, and others are affected — A hacking group has taken credit for a breach at market intelligence provider Klue that allowed hackers to steal reams of data …
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| 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 …
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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. …
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| 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.| 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 … | 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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| 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.
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| 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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX, which is seeking to raise between $20B and $25B in its debut US bond sale, has drawn about $89B of demand — SpaceX Loses $600 Billion in Value Over Three Days — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 12.89% Playback Rate — captions off, selected| 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| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba sues the DOD, seeking removal from a blacklist of companies supporting China's military, says the decision is a violation of constitutional due process — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. sued the Department of Defense to be removed from a blacklist that identifies the e-commerce leader …
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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 …
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| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy ads on CTVs, sources say for $1.4B cash; top executives get $180M to stay for four years — Retail giant is paying $1.4 billion for Vibe.co, a company that enables advertising through connected TVs| 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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| 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 …
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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Stark, which has a deal to supply “kamikaze” drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties — US billionaire's fund participated in €500mn funding round despite previous criticism of company's links with financier
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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 …
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