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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 …
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.
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
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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
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.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~$1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation  —  Company runs AI-powered factories that aim to speed up manufacturing  —  Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian Automation Inc …
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 …
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 …
Chris Gillett / Works in Progress Magazine:
How the data center boom is exposing weaknesses in US power grids, and a look at what fixes the electricity infrastructure may need to become fit for the future  —  The AI buildout is bottlenecked by energy.  But America has the electricity to power its data centers; the problem is getting it to them.

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Perry Stein / Washington Post:
Source: the US DOJ sought to force WaPo and WSJ reporters to testify before a grand jury but withdrew the subpoenas this month after the outlets challenged them

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
UK ministers are advancing a bill requiring YouTube and TikTok to promote BBC and ITV content, as well as forcing streamers to show big sports events for free

Deadline:
Piers Morgan's Uncensored raised $27M led by Raine Ventures and Antenna Group, with Elisabeth Murdoch participating, sources say at a $145M valuation

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Filing: Oracle reduced its global workforce by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; Oracle says AI adoption “resulted” in reductions
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
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multiagent orchestration system accessible via an OpenAI-compatible API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks
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
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