Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses revealed at Connect 2025, Trump crypto advisor David Sacks being investigated over a possible SGE violation, and Google Discover to start showing social media posts and YouTube Shorts
he Meta CEO kicked off Meta Connect 2025 confirming the rumors with the reveal of Meta's first pair of AR glasses with a built-in screen. They'll cost $800 and will come to a limited number of brick-and-mortar stores in the US beginning September 30. Those retailers include Best Buy, LensCrafters, Ray-Ban and Verizon, and availability will expand to Canada, France, Italy and the UK early next year. Also, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Melanie Stansbury are leading a group of congressional Democrats investigating White House Special Advisor David Sacks for possibly serving in his position for longer than he's allowed. Sacks, a former PayPal executive and venture capitalist at Craft Ventures, was originally picked by President Donald Trump to be the "White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." And Google's Discover content feed is getting some new features. It'll soon include more than just articles from throughout the web. The company says the platform will be incorporating stuff like social media posts from platforms like Instagram and X along with YouTube Shorts.
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Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal file joint lawsuit against generative AI app Hailuo
The three largest movie studios in the US allege brazen copyright infringement across dozens of protected works.
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Tesla is being investigated over its electronic door handles, another lawsuit blames an AI company of complicity in a teenager's suicide, and LimeWire acquired Fyre Festival
The NHTSA said it opened an investigation into the automaker's electrically powered doors. The problem: They stop working if the vehicle's low-voltage battery fails. The NHTSA's probe will cover the 2021 Model Y, which covers an estimated 174,000 vehicles.
Also, another family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against popular AI chatbot tool Character AI. This is the third suit of its kind after a 2024 lawsuit, also against Character AI, involving the suicide of a 14-year-old in Florida, and a lawsuit last month alleging OpenAI's ChatGPT helped a teenage boy commit suicide.
And, LimeWire has announced that it's acquired the rights to Fyre Festival, the disastrous, influencer-fueled 2017 music festival. The newly revived company — which now acts as a NFT music marketplace rather than a file-sharing service — bought the rights for $245,000 in an eBay auction.
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A TikTok deal may finally be happening
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said unnamed parties reached a framework agreement.
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China says NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition violated antitrust law, New York details its plans for online age verification rules, and Early Access is the latest place where Steam is restricting games with mature themes
A regulator has accused NVIDIA of violating China's antitrust laws over its acquisition of chipmaker Mellanox. In its preliminary findings of an investigation it commenced in December, the State Administration for Market Regulation claimed that the company breached both national regulations and the conditional terms China outlined when it rubber-stamped the $6.9 billion takeover. Also, on Monday, the state's Attorney General Letitia James released more specifics about what the SAFE for Kids Act will entail in practice. And, Valve has apparently updated its Steam Early Access policy to no longer accept games with what the company deems to be "mature themes." As first reported by Gamesmarkt earlier this month, gaming studio Dammitbird, which develops the adult adventure game Heavy Hearts, was not allowed to put the title on Steam Early Access because of its content.
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