Envisioning a New Tech Hub: Project Crystal Land in Arizona

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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Links:

• 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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