Meta has some new smartglasses. How long can the TikTok groundhog day go on? Masa Son wants to create a Shenzhen-like production city here in the US. Are your smart cameras a national security threat to the home front in a war? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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• Meta announces Oakley smart glasses (The Verge)
• Meta tried to buy Ilya Sutskever’s $32 billion AI startup, but is now planning to hire its CEO (CNBC)
• Trump extends TikTok ban deadline for a third time, without clear legal basis (AP)
• Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says (Axios)
• Masa Son Pitches $1 Trillion US AI Hub to TSMC, Trump Team (Bloomberg)
• Israeli Officials Warn Iran Is Hijacking Security Cameras to Spy (Bloomberg)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content (ArsTechnica)
• Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex (QuantaMagazine)

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Are we about to see a summer of layoffs in Silicon Valley? Midjourney’s new video model. Meta continues its acqu-hire spree with some folks we know. Microsoft has its own nuclear option with OpenAI, while OpenAI is starting to get worried about its models being nuclear dangerous? And what even IS AGI?

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• Microsoft Planning Thousands More Job Cuts Aimed at Salespeople (Bloomberg)
• ‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit (VentureBeat)
• Meta in Talks to Hire AI Investors Friedman and Gross, Partially Buy Out Their Venture Fund (The Information)
• Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks (FT)
• OpenAI warns models with higher bioweapons risk are imminent (Axios)
• Why Big Tech cannot agree on artificial general intelligence (FT)

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Remember how that TikTok ban or sale thing has never been resolved? Yeah. Sam Altman describes the money he says Meta is throwing at AI researchers. Is xAI the one with the real money crunch in the AI race? And a review of the first of this new wave of smartglasses.

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Links:

• Trump will grant TikTok another 90-day extension in enforcement of sale-or-ban law (CNNBusiness)
• Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers (TechCrunch)
• Musk’s xAI Burns Through $1 Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up (Bloomberg)
• YouTube to Add Google’s Veo 3 to Shorts in Move That Could Turbocharge AI on the Video Platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI (NBCNews)
• Xreal’s One Pro Are a Stopgap Ahead of True AR Smart Glasses (Bloomberg)

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