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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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| 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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| 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 … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
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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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| 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
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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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| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+ — Cybersecurity company Varonis Systems Inc. is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest, according to people familiar with the matter.
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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
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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.
| 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| 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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| 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 …
| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work — Cloudflare Inc. and newsletter platform beehiiv Inc. today launched an integration that hands independent publishers a single toggle to decide whether …
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| 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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