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June 23, 2026, 11:10 AM
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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 …
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.
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
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. …
Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
South Korea's tech-heavy Kospi index falls 10%, dragged down by SK Hynix and Samsung; STMicro and ASML fall ~7%, and US tech stocks fall in pre-market trading  —  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
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 …
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 …
More: The Next Web
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.
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 …
More: The Next Web, Axios, and Semafor
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
Wired:
Meta says it is pausing its employee-tracking program meant for training AI models after internal security issues exposed sensitive data from employees' laptops  —  Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.

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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
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
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
OpenAI unveils an improved GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the “Patch the Planet” initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open-source bugs, and more
Bloomberg:
Alphabet's stock closed down 5.08% on June 22 after Google DeepMind VP John Jumper departed to Anthropic, Google's second top AI executive to leave in a week
Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
Meta is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling, and launches Instagram for TV on Samsung TV devices
Kevin Crowley / Bloomberg:
Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US
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