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New York Times:
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and Meta will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats  —  They will appear in only one part of the Meta-owned messaging service, it said.  The move is potentially lucrative, while raising questions about user privacy.
Financial Times:
Digital asset platform Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed SRM Entertainment, after the US paused a probe into founder Justin Sun  —  Deal involving Justin Sun's digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump's sons
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Amazon Ads and Roku sign an ad initiative that will give media buyers access to 80%+ of US connected-TV households, set to launch by Q4 2025, using Amazon's DSP  —  In a milestone agreement, Amazon Ads and Roku are teaming on a new advertising initiative that will give media buyers access …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a gold phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, an MVNO that uses AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile  —  President Trump and his family are getting into the wireless business, in partnership with the three major U.S. carriers.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
TikTok rolls out new AI ad features as part of its Symphony ad suite, including the ability for marketers to use text or images to generate five-second videos  —  TikTok is rolling out a set of new artificial intelligence-powered advertising features, including the ability for marketers …
Bloomberg:
A whistleblower provides nonpublic data revealing that 1M+ 2FA SMS messages from June 2023 passed via Fink Telecom, a small Swiss company linked to spy agencies  —  Every day, millions of people sign in to their email, banking app or social media accounts with both their password and a one-time login code they receive by text message.
Carl Benedikt Frey / Financial Times:
AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives  —  Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed  —  The writer is author of 'How Progress Ends …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's upgrades to CarPlay, iPadOS, and visionOS, why they were the underappreciated highlights of WWDC, and thoughts on the Liquid Glass redesign  —  Apple's unveiling of iOS 26 and the Liquid Glass interface was the most discussed part of its developers conference …
DhanushVignesh Babu / Reuters:
The UK CMA opens an investigation into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential lower competition in the UK ad market  —  Britain's competition watchdog on Monday launched a probe into the proposed merger between advertising giants Omnicom and Interpublic …
Michael Goodier / The Guardian:
A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23  —  Guardian investigation finds almost 7,000 proven cases of cheating - and experts says these are tip of the iceberg

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Jon Passantino / Status:
Sources: before the layoffs, a group of wealthy DC locals asked Will Lewis whether WaPo would sell them its local and sports sections, but never got an answer

Hadas Gold / CNN:
Anthropic is running Super Bowl ads criticizing ads in chatbots, prompting a public response from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defending plans for ads in ChatGPT

C.J. Robinson / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the FOIA system, as right-wing media networks flood it with robo-requests, the number of FOIA agents stays flat, and states opt for higher fees

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Financial Times:
BT Group CEO Allison Kirkby says AI advances could deepen job cuts at BT, whose plans to cut over 40,000 jobs by 2030 “did not reflect the full potential of AI”

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Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal:
America250, the nonprofit organizing the US Semiquincentennial celebration, says it received sponsorship commitments from Oracle, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir
Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant performance gains in internal evaluations over single-agent systems
Timothy B. Lee / Understanding AI:
Researchers find that Llama 3.1 can recall large portions of popular copyrighted books, weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is “fringe behavior”
Ainslie Chandler / Bloomberg:
Amazon plans to invest ~$13B in Australia from 2025 to 2029 to develop its data center infrastructure, as demand for cloud computing and AI grows in the country
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