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Meta's $399 Starfire glasses, designed with Kylie Jenner, let Meta AI speak in her voice and headline its new own-brand range.

The Trump administration is pushing Meta, the lone holdout among major US developers, to submit its AI for federal review, the NYT reports.

ByteDance announced Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, generating 30-second native 4K clips from up to 50 reference inputs, with public launch in July.

Anthropic launched Claude Tag in research preview, an always-on AI that follows Slack conversations, learns company context, and proactively flags updates.

Security firm AIR built a harmless fake skill, got it past Cisco and NVIDIA scanners, and says it reached 26,000 agents, exposing a blind spot in how skills are vetted.

Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to build a prediction market app called Arena that would compete with Polymarket and Kalshi, the New York Times reported.

A decade after the Brexit vote, an NBER study finds the UK economy is 6-8% smaller than if it had stayed. Seven prime ministers, a weakened pound, and a demographic cliff.

SpaceX attracted $89 billion in orders for its first investment-grade bond sale, seeking to raise up to $25 billion to refinance a bridge loan from its IPO.

Oracle shed 13% of its workforce while spending $55.7 billion on data centres. Its SEC filing explicitly cites AI adoption as the cause of job losses.

Google still controls 90% of search and just posted record revenue, but talent exits, ChatGPT's rise, and antitrust remedies are eroding its position.