Moar Meta Glasses

Meta launched $299 in-house Adventurer and Fury smart glasses plus a $399 Kylie Jenner Starfire. Trump signed two quantum-computing executive orders. South Korea's Kospi cratered 10% in a tech selloff, ByteDance debuted Seedance 2.5, and Meta paused its laptop-tracking program.

• 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 (Bloomberg)
• HEADLINE TBD — couldn't read it (The Verge)
• President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present (WSJ)
• 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 (CNBC)
• 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 (The Information)
• ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 breaks the 30-second barrier for AI video generation (The Decoder)
• Meta says it is pausing its employee-tracking program meant for training AI models after internal security issues exposed sensitive data from employees' laptops (Wired)

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