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 i

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 intelligenc

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 po

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 br

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,

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 any

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

Juro Osawa / The Information : ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5 in Beijing, saying the AI video model can generate 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 Be

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : An interview with Nvidia VP of Healthcare Kimberly Powell on how AI can ease doctors' workloads, help address trained medical staff shortages, and more — The chipmaker's head of healthcare argues AI can ease many of the sector's ills, including reducing med

По данным аналитической компании Syntun, онлайн-продажи во время китайского шопинг-фестиваля 618 показали значительное замедление темпов роста. В этом году показатель увеличился всего на 4% в годовом исчислении. Это является резким падением по сравнению с ростом в 15,2%, зафиксированным в прошл

Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg : A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers — A US labor board judge ruled that Amazon.com Inc. must collectively bargain with California warehouse wor