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June 16, 2025, 9:10 AM
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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 …
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.
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 …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant performance gains in internal evaluations over single-agent systems  —  Our Research feature uses multiple Claude agents to explore complex topics more effectively.  We share the engineering challenges …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
The Trump Organization teases the $499 “T1 Phone”, a “sleek, gold” phone “designed and built” in the US, and Trump Mobile, based on 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.
DhanushVignesh Babu / Reuters:
The UK CMA launches a probe into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential competition reduction 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
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”  —  Allison Kirkby said advances in artificial intelligence could deepen significant job cuts under way at BT …

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From Mediagazer

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

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Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal:
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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
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
New York passes a bill requiring companies publish safety and security reports on their frontier AI models; the bill now needs Governor Kathy Hochul's signature
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