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WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and 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.
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| 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 … | 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 …
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| Karoline Kan / Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: researchers implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, making China the second country after the US to do so — China's first clinical trial of a technology that allows signals from the brain to control an external device has proved successful …
More: Global Times and MassDevice
| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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| 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.
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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 …
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| 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 … | Bloomberg: |
In March, New York added a checkbox to its WARN system for companies to show if “technological innovation or automation”, like AI, was a reason for mass layoffs — Form fitting — New York state has quietly become the first in the nation to ask companies to disclose … | 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
More: Human Events. Bluesky: @patrickgaley, @beijingpalmer, @hypervisible, and @shannonvallor
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Aspora, which makes financial tools like remittance services for the Indian diaspora, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Sequoia and Greylock at a $500M valuation — India has been one of the top recipients of remittances in the world for more than a decade.| 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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