Ray-Ban Comes Off Meta’s Entry Tier
After years of co-branding with Ray-Ban, Meta is arranging smart glasses as a category of its own. The $299 Muse Spark and $399 Kylie Jenner collaboration put entry pricing, fashion segmentation, and brand control into one launch cycle.
Sources: Meta is building a standalone prediction markets app internally called Arena, which would probably use 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 …
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.
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 …
Alex Bores, a New York congressional candidate who argued for AI safeguards, lost to Micah Lasher in the Democratic primary that had millions in AI PAC spending
NBC News projects that Lasher, who was backed by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, emerged from a crowded field in the Manhattan-based 12th District.
Sources: the NSA was red-teaming with Mythos 5 before losing access amid the Anthropic dispute; the tests showed Mythos can identify flaws in classified systems
A recent episode underscored the Trump administration's increasing reliance on advanced A.I. systems for cybersecurity even as it battles a leading U.S. developer.
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 …
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models
Loading... - Early testing shows that the first-generation accelerator will deliver performance per watt substantially better than current state-of-the-art
Micron and Sandisk led a tech selloff on June 23, falling 13%+ each; Western Digital fell 8%, Marvell 9%, Seagate 5%, Qualcomm 8%, and Applied Materials 8%
One analyst says investors are merely taking a ‘breather’ from buzzy tech stocks, following sharp year-to-date gains and ahead …
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero, which has 19M+ registered users and $30M in annual recurring revenue; PitchBook: GPTZero is valued at $88M+
As AI-generated content storms the internet, productivity company Superhuman is acquiring GPTZero, an AI detection startup cofounded by Edward Tian and Alex Cui in 2023.
Sources: the Trump administration is pressing Meta to submit its AI models for voluntary review; Meta is the only major US AI developer without an agreement
Federal officials are urging the lone major tech company holdout to allow government safety evaluations, weeks after ordering Anthropic to pull its latest model.
Mistral debuts OCR 4, a model offering structured document extraction with bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores, for 170 languages
Today, we're releasing Mistral OCR 4, featuring bounding boxes, block classification, and inline confidence scores alongside extracted text.
Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests
Makers of Chrome, Edge, Firefox back bot-fraud defense called Private Access Control Tokens — Cloudflare on Monday …
Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline
Crypto platform Binance intends to stay in the European Union and will make a fresh push for permission to operate there …
YouTube settles a lawsuit before a second California trial over social media harming minors, set to begin on July 27; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants
The case will now pit a 15-year-old Black teen against tech giants Meta, TikTok and Snap. — LOS ANGELES (CN) — YouTube and its parent company Google …
Cerebras reports Q1 revenue up 94% YoY to $193.4M, net loss down 41% YoY to $14M, and forecasts its core gross margin will shrink in Q2; CBRS drops 10%+
- Cerebras reported financials for the first time since its IPO in May. … Cerebras said revenue almost doubled in the AI chipmaker's …
Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash to build agents that can interact across platforms. — Computer use is now a built …
Ornn, which plans to launch a marketplace for GPU capacity designed to function like an exchange to trade oil contracts, raised a $33M seed led by a16z
Ornn raised $33 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz as the marketplace startup seeks to build a venue where the power …
An interview with Bob Iger on stepping down as Disney's CEO, his legacy, new CEO Josh D'Amaro, Bob Chapek, Apple, Disney+, acquiring Pixar, AI tools, and more
For two decades, Hollywood's most indispensable executive has been synonymous with Disney. Can he really tear himself away?
AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims it has 30M+ users, releases the open weights for its Krea 2 image models under a custom license
While many enterprises have already begun integrating AI-generated images, visuals, graphics and videos into their production workflows …
Rockstar says GTA VI will cost $79.99, or $99.99 for the Ultimate Edition; preorders start at midnight local time on June 25, ahead of the November 19 launch
The game is set to launch on November 19th. The game is set to launch on November 19th.
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, vs. $35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14%+ after hours
Micron's revenue more than quadrupled in the fiscal third quarter, the company said on Wednesday, as the memory maker continued …
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present
Flipkart says it plans to expand its network of micro-fulfillment centers in India to 1,500 by the end of 2026, and orders on the platform have grown ~400% YoY
As quick commerce becomes India's next e-commerce battleground, Walmart-backed Flipkart said Wednesday that its Minutes service …
SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off
SK Hynix's (000660.KS) overtaking of Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) to become South Korea's most valuable firm was the culmination …
Seltz, which is building a web search engine that can be used by AI agents, raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital
The rise of AI has rekindled the long-dormant search wars. Chatbots and AI agents need to surface timely, relevant information about news and all kinds of products and services.
Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback
The Google Home Speaker is the first new device of its kind to come from Alphabet Inc. in six years.
Sources: India drives 50%+ of WhatsApp's global revenue, or $1B+ annually, largely via business messaging, which likely helped Kunal Shah get WhatsApp's top job
New York-based Probook, which is building an AI operating system for home service businesses, raised a $34M Series A led by a16z and a $6M seed led by Sequoia
George Eliadis really knows his way around a pressure washer. — The 24 year-old spent six summers pressure washing houses in upstate New York with his dad.
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
Meta just launched Meta Glasses — our first in-house designed AI glasses, built with EssilorLuxottica. …
Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for “tens of millions”, per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M
Indian customer engagement software firm MoEngage, which serves brands across global markets …
Filing: SK Hynix is seeking to raise ~$29.4B in a US listing, expects trading to start on July 10, and intends to use the funds to build additional capacity
Memory Chip Frenzy Sends SK Hynix, Micron Into $1 Trillion Club — Video Player is loading. — Unmute
Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets
Meta is planning to launch its own prediction market app to compete with companies like Kalshi and Polymarket in a booming sector …
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
Amazon's OpenAI Movie • Meta Glasses • Microsoft's AI Narrative PivotAngela Palumbo /Barron's Online:Can the Kardashians Make Smart Glasses Cool? Meta Hopes So.Rik Henderson /T3:Meta goes it alone w...
Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking
Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound
Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300+ Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi
Amazon.com Inc. is multiplying the Indian cities and towns covered by its Amazon Now quick deliveries, an aggressive move …
Walmart acquires Vibe.co, which lets businesses create and buy connected TV ads, sources say for $1.4B cash; top executives get ~$180M to stay for four years
Sources: prices for Nvidia's AI chips on China's black market have more than doubled amid a US export crackdown; its DGX B300 server went from ~$550K to ~$1.1M
US crackdown on illicit exports has made it riskier, harder and more expensive to buy tech giant's processors
London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP
Isometric has closed a €34 million ($40 million) Series A to expand its AI certification platform across the €305 billion …
RunPod, which rents access to non-Nvidia servers, raised $100M led by Summit Partners at a $1B valuation, a source says up from $100M after its seed in 2024
By some accounts, the compute crunch of 2026 has become even more dire than the chip crunch of 2023, which saw …
The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is modifying the tool
The US Food and Drug Administration dropped its complaint against fitness tracker brand Whoop Inc. over its blood-pressure tracking tool …
Runlayer, which provides an infrastructure and control layer for enterprise AI agents, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $42M
When longtime tech investor Vinod Khosla heard that Runlayer—the startup trying to become the default infrastructure layer governing …
Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in June 2025
Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is in talks to provide chip-design services to China's ByteDance, four people familiar with the matter said …
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
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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
Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, entry-level jobs changing, and more
Matt Garman argues that junior employees are as necessary as ever. But AWS now sells agents that can recruit, code, and process claims.
Alibaba sues the US DOD, seeking to be removed from a blacklist of companies backing China's military, saying the agency is violating constitutional due process
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to help take them down
Investigators used new tools to defeat old malware technology. — Microsoft Corp. deployed artificial intelligence to link …
Sources: in a letter to US officials, Anthropic accused Alibaba of adversarial distillation, accessing Claude 28.8M times from April to June via ~25K accounts
Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” …
The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation
Rockstar says physical copies of GTA VI will contain a download code, not a disc, and be available starting November 12, when players can begin pre-loading
Keep it on the download. — Rockstar will sell physical copies of Grand Theft Auto 6 — though you'll only get a box containing a digital download code.
Sources: the Trump administration has been happier talking to Anthropic lately after Dario Amodei was replaced by cofounder Tom Brown in meetings about Fable 5
At high-stakes meetings with the White House, Anthropic's CEO—a “weirdo,” per one official—has been replaced by cofounder Tom Brown.
Orderful, which offers AI-powered tools to automate supply chain data management, raised a $35M Series C led by KDT, bringing its total funding to $85M
Orderful Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make supply chains more efficient, today announced that it has raised $35 million in funding.
xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise $350M led by Boardman Bay Capital and Bain Capital
XLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for semiconductor manufacturing, is in talks to raise $350 million in funding from a pair …
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
Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is “China's version of Mythos”, and Yitianzhen, to automate cyber defense
Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 Security Technology (601360.SS) has developed what it calls a domestic answer to Anthropic's Mythos …
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
NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs, and plans a São Paulo office
Banks and insurance companies spend billions of dollars to employ staff to screen risky transactions, process claims, and onboard new customers.
Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic
Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Alphabet Inc.'s Google are planning to leave for rival Anthropic PBC …
Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~$40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation in May
Rapidly growing company is increasingly challenging established derivatives and betting rivals — Kalshi is in talks to raise funds …
How Chicago is betting on quantum computing, including turning the site of its former US Steel mill into a campus, after largely missing the digital revolution
Illinois is betting on a promising—but commercially unproven—technology — CHICAGO—The Lake Michigan docks that once received iron ore …Forums:r/chicagoForums:r/chicago:Chicago Missed the Tech Boom. ...
How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became especially wealthy; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K+, ~5x the average
SpaceX raised $25B in its debut US bond sale; sources say the offering drew nearly $90B of orders at its peak, but fell to $73B by the time the deal priced
Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing Agility at ~$2.5B, listing under ticker symbol AGLT
Agility's humanoid robot, Digit, is used by companies including Amazon — Agility Robotics, a startup that makes humanlike robots used …
Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged ~2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap to $128B+
Sources: Miami-based cybersecurity company Varonis is exploring options including a potential sale after receiving takeover interest; VRNS jumps 6%+
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
SambaNova Executive Chairman Lip-Bu Tan says the AI chip startup is set to raise $800M to $1B, sources say at a ~$10B valuation, up from $2B in February
AI server chips that effectively compete with Nvidia's have never been more in-demand as AI developers and cloud providers seek lower-cost alternatives to the market leader.
An analysis of GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Grok 4.3, Gab's Arya, and other AI models: most chatbots frequently provide left-leaning responses to political prompts
Excerpts from each chatbot's responses to political questions — Left-leaning argument — Right-leaning — ChatGPT — Gemini
XCures, which uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, raised a $46M Series B at a $127M post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $76M
XCures, a startup that uses AI to streamline patient data and medical records, has closed a $46 million Series B financing round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
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
Qualcomm unveils Dragonfly C1000, a new data center CPU built for agentic AI, and says Meta will use the chip when production starts in 2028
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Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce aerospace and defense parts, is in talks to raise up to $1B at a ~$7.5B post-money valuation
Market intelligence company Klue confirms it has suffered a breach, for which cybercrime group Icarus takes credit; Jamf, HackerOne, and others are affected
My story: https://techcrunch.com/... But you might not have seen Klue CEO's blog post because it included “noindex” code in the HTML, which hides the page from search engine results: https://web.arch...
Qualcomm says it will acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026
because Nvidia's real moat was never the silicon, and Cristiano Amon finally figured out the shortcutErwin Castro /The CODEW:Why Qualcomm's Reported $4 Billion Modular Acquisition Could Transform Its ...