• Google announced a partnership with Warby Parker for smart glasses, challenging Meta's Ray-Ban line.
• The collaboration includes an investment of up to $150 million, with up to $75 million toward development.
• Google's Android XR platform includes see-through headsets and glasses that support AR and AI.

Google is taking aim at Meta's Ray-Ban glasses with a version of its own AI eyewear line, styled by Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.

"We want you to be able to wear glasses that match your personal taste," Google's Android XR lead Shahram Izadi said at Google I/O.

The glasses are part of Google's Android XR platform and are a partnership with Samsung, the company announced at its Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday. The platform includes see-through headsets, as well as glasses that support augmented reality and AI.

Google and Warby Parker plan to launch a series of products, with the first line of smart glasses with multimodal AI set to launch after 2025, an announcement from the lifestyle vision brand said. Android XR will also include Project Moohan, the first Android XR headset device, which will come out later this year.

Google has committed up to $150 million to the partnership, with as much as $75 million going toward product development and commercialization costs, and up to $75 million in equity, the announcement said. Warby Parker's stock is up nearly 15% following the news about the collaboration.

At the event, Izadi said the glasses prototypes "are already being used by trusted testers." The Google VP didn't share further details on availability or pricing. While Gentle Monster defines itself as a luxury eyewear brand, Warby Parker is better known for offering stylish but affordable options.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg projected in January that 2025 could be a "defining year" for the brand's Ray-Ban smart glasses, even if it's not a breakthrough.

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, which don't yet include AR capabilities, have become one of the company's few mainstream hardware hits. They allow users to take photos, livestream, and access Meta AI via voice.

During the company's latest earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said sales of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses had "tripled" over the past year. Meta's Ray Bans cost between $300 and $500.

Later this year, Meta is expected to release a new version of the Ray-Bans with a built-in display, its first step toward augmented reality in a mass-market product. According to Bloomberg, the upcoming model could cost between $1,000 and $1,400.

Meanwhile, Meta is developing a separate, more ambitious line of AR glasses, internally codenamed "Artemis," which it aims to release by 2027. These are distinct from both the Ray-Bans and "Orion," an early prototype Meta unveiled last year as a preview of its AR ambitions.

Google is taking aim at Orion with its own "Project Aura" glasses, part of its broader Android XR platform. Google's Aura glasses include a built-in camera, microphone, speakers, and in-lens display, and they are already being tested.

Google has been exploring the concept of smart glasses for over a decade, and it's had some flops along the way — like Google Glass, which was discontinued in 2023, after launching in 2013. Last year at I/O, Google teased Project Astra, a vision of what Google Assistant could be like if it could hear and see around you. Google CEO Sundar Pichai hinted that Google was "working on prototypes" for the AI assistant that could be glasses.

Google did a live demo of the Project Aura glasses on Tuesday at I/O, showing how users could message friends, make appointments, ask for directions, and take photos. It also demoed a live language translation, which appeared a bit glitchy in the onstage demonstration, but still offered an impressive first look at what the tech could offer.

Google I/O also included a series of other product rollouts and AI updates, including a conversation version of Search called AI Mode, as well as gen-AI media models like Veo 3, and Imagen 4.

Jalen Hurts said he did not visit the White House last month simply because he couldn't.

The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, who won the Super Bowl LIX MVP in dethroning the Kansas City Chiefs, was absent from the team's celebration in Washington, D.C., last month, warranting much speculation.

Days before the event, Hurts was asked whether he planned on visiting, and was mum on the subject.

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"Um," Hurts said before looking around. He never answered the question as the interviewer thanked him for his time. 

Fox News then confirmed at the time that Hurts did not attend due to "scheduling conflicts," and he's sticking to that story.

"I wasn’t available. I don’t think that’s pertinent. Everyone who went, and was available. They seemed to enjoy themselves," he told reporters on Tuesday.

Hurts didn’t give a glowing review of the president’s decision to attend Super Bowl LIX, which saw Philadelphia defeat the Chiefs 40-22.

"He's welcome to do what he wants," Hurts said in February.

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Meanwhile, running back Saquon Barkley was seen with President Donald Trump at his golf course in New Jersey the day before the visit. He rode back to Washington on Air Force One with the president.

Hurts, though, raised eyebrows again when he attended the Met Gala the following week.

Hurts was not the only Eagles player to skip their White House visit. Star wide receivers A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith were also among players not present.

When the Eagles won the Super Bowl back in 2018, the team decided not to attend the White House. Trump rescinded the invitation to host the Eagles after several players said they would not participate in the visit because of his previous criticisms of national anthem protests.

The Los Angeles Dodgers visited the White House several weeks before the Eagles did to commemorate their World Series title. Mookie Betts, who skipped a visit in 2019 with the Boston Red Sox, attended this year.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos and Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report. 

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Mere hours after Hailey Bieber’s first solo Vogue cover dropped on Tuesday, May 20, Justin Bieber took to Instagram to share a candid confession about a past argument with his wife over the magazine.

The “mean” comment stemmed from feeling “disrespected,” which Justin, 31, admitted he now deeply regrets.

“Yo, this reminds me when Hailey and I got into a huge fight,” Justin captioned a photo of Hailey’s cover via Instagram on Tuesday. He then dropped the bombshell: “I told Hails that she would never be on the cover of Vogue. Yikes, I know, so mean.”

This admission, particularly given Hailey’s prominent career as a supermodel and this being her now-second Vogue cover since their marriage (including the March 2019 Vogue cover they shared), detailed this deeply personal moment in their relationship and the power dynamics.

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Justin went on to a “fleeting, yet powerful, urge to “get even” when feeling disrespected. “For some reason, because I felt so disrespected, I thought I gotta get even…” he wrote.

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However, he quickly pivoted to a more evolved perspective, reflecting on the lessons learned as they’ve grown together. “I think as we mature, we realize that we’re not helping anything by getting even, we’re honestly just prolonging what we really want, which is intimacy and connection,” he added.

The singer, who shares son Jack Blues, 8 months, with Hailey, ended his apology with words directed straight to his wife: “So baby u already know but forgive me for saying u wouldn’t get a Vogue cover cuz clearly i was sadly mistaken.”

This candid reflection from Justin provides a personal anecdote about their relationship and inadvertently underlines Hailey’s significant presence in the fashion world.

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Far from being absent from the pages of Vogue, Hailey has cemented her status as a top model and a style icon, appearing on numerous international covers for the esteemed publication.

In the new issue that came out Tuesday, she reflected on the arduous postpartum journey she experienced after giving birth to Jack in August 2024, including body dysmorphia and more. She also set the record straight on the headlines surrounding a potential rift in her marriage.

“It’s not real,” she told Vogue of most of what’s written about her. “And that’s the thing: I have a real life,” she continued. “My real life is that I get to wake up to my beautiful family and my son and my friends and I have people that know me and love me and I love them.”

Justin’s past prediction makes his “sadly mistaken” admission all the more, well, sad.

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