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Meta is making another push into wearable AI, launching its new Adventurer glasses at two hundred forty nine dollars — the company's lowest price point yet for the category. The frames pack a twelve megapixel camera, open-ear speakers, and Meta's onboard AI assistant, signaling Zuckerberg's continued bet that the face is the next computing platform.
Shifting to fixed income, Ford's corporate preferred shares are drawing fresh analyst attention, with the average one-year price target revised sharply higher to twenty four dollars and sixty eight cents — a jump of more than twenty four percent from the prior June estimate of nineteen eighty three. That kind of upward revision on a legacy automaker's debt instrument suggests analysts see more balance sheet stability at Ford than the market has been pricing in.
And in a case where intellectual property meets retail scale, Warner Music is suing eyewear giant Luxottica for sixty four million dollars, alleging the company used recordings by Miley Cyrus, Bruno Mars, and Led Zeppelin in social media advertising without proper licensing. It's a reminder that music rights enforcement is becoming an increasingly aggressive revenue line for the major labels.
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