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Archives for June 2026

Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban

They’re $80 cheaper, and Alex Himel, Meta’s VP of wearables, says privacy improvements are on the way.

Victoria Song
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Amazon’s next AI-powered courtroom game stars Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Courtroom Chaos — Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger follows the Snoop Dogg-themed courtroom game that launched last year on Luna, and they’re both part of Amazon’s new plan for games.

This new game adds a single-player mode and a mode where AI Arnold can help you settle bets with friends.

A screenshot from Courtroom Chaos - Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Image: Amazon
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Oversight Board is demanding Meta take down an “AI-generated sexualized video” of a woman on Instagram.

Meta said it didn’t have indicators of the post being nonconsensual, but in addition to arguing that was incorrect, the board says Meta should determine that “AI-generated impersonation is non-consensual by default.”

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Meta pauses employee tracking tool after internal leak.

Screenshots seen by Business Insider showed that data from Meta’s controversial AI training program — including employees’ private conversations, performance data, and transcriptions — could be accessed across the entire company. In a statement to the publication, Meta said:

“We have carefully designed this program with privacy safeguards, and while we have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed by Meta employees, we’re pausing it while we investigate.”

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
What Is A Photo: souvenir edition.

Yup, that about sums up where we are right now in the world of AI editing tools and content authenticity.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs because of AI.

That’s a workforce reduction of about 13 percent over the last 12 months, according to a disclosure filed Monday. And Oracle is hardly alone in at least partially attributing the cuts to AI advancements:

Worries are quickly mounting over job losses due to AI disruption, as 196 ‌tech ⁠companies laid off more than 119,800 employees so far this year, according to Layoffs.fyi.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Sakana Fugu Ultra promises to deliver “the very best frontier-level performance” by... using frontier AI models.

Japanese AI startup Sakana has posted benchmark results and beta tester impressions saying that its Fugu models compare favorably with or beat the likes of Fable 5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.5.

The company says Fugu carefully chooses when to use other frontier AI models like Claude and Gemini on specific tasks, although it doesn’t tell users which model was used for what. “Over time, Sakana Fugu will naturally grow by incorporating newer, more efficient models, including our own.”

Grid of AI benchmarks comparing Sakana’s Fugu AI to other models
Image: Sakana
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
SpaceX is leasing AI compute to Reflection, too.

The open-source AI startup has a deal through 2029, similar to Anthropic and Google, to rent compute capacity from SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center for $150 million per month (up to $6.3 billion), reports the Wall Street Journal.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Five Eyes urges organizations to ‘act now’ against AI cyber threats.

The intelligence-sharing alliance says that Al models are anticipated to fundamentally transform offensive and defensive cyber capabilities in a matter of months, and that “breaches will occur” as previously unknown vulnerabilities emerge. “Adversaries are already using AI to move faster and more effectively,” said Five Eyes. “Defenders must do the same.”

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
ChatGPT adds licensed pictures from Getty Images.

Under a multi-year agreement, ChatGPT will surface photos from Getty Images in its responses, as well as within its search results. Getty Images has a similar deal with Perplexity.

Read this before you vibe-code another app

Your dream vibe-coded app might be a security nightmare.

Yael Grauer
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Samsung is no longer South Korea’s most valuable company.

Chipmaker SK Hynix, which supplies high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips to Nvidia and Google, has overtaken Samsung, with Reuters reporting that its market capitalization has now hit $1.35 trillion. Samsung had held the top spot since 2000, prior to the AI boom.

A graph showing the value of Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix.
That’s one heck of a comeback for SK Hynix, after it almost collapsed under debt two decades ago.
Image: Reuters