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June 16, 2025, 8:05 PM
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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.
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI and Microsoft talks have become so fraught that OpenAI execs discussed accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior before federal regulators — The startup, growing frustrated with its partner, has discussed making antitrust complaints to regulators
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| 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.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
The US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in “warfighting and enterprise domains” — OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools.
More: Reuters, MarketWatch, and U.S. Department of Defense
| Financial Times: |
Justin Sun's Tron plans to go public via a reverse merger with Nasdaq-listed toy maker SRM Entertainment, which intends to buy TRX tokens and rename itself Tron — Deal involving Justin Sun's digital asset venture orchestrated by investment bank linked to Trump's sons
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol, Germany, and more dismantle Archetyp Market, a darknet drug marketplace active since May 2020 with 612K users processing €250M+ in Monero transactions — Law enforcement authorities from six countries took down the Archetyp Market, an infamous darknet drug marketplace that has been operating since May 2020.| Katie Notopoulos / Business Insider: |
The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info — - Business Insider found that the Meta AI app's public feed was full of personal information that looked to be accidentally published.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Threads plans to let users hide text or images that spoil a piece of entertainment, blurring the text or image that has been marked as a spoiler — The text-based app from Meta is launching a tool that lets users hide spoilers in text or images, to encourage discussion of TV shows and films on the platform.
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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 …
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X: @amazonads and @markstenberg3
LinkedIn: Krishan Bhatia and Jay Askinasi
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Meta's talks with Scale AI started in mid-April, with Zuckerberg floating a $5B investment in early May, which Alexandr Wang later countered with $20B — The negotiations started as just one billionaire tech founder talking to another. Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg approached … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Trump Media and Technology Group files an S-1 with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, allocating 75% to bitcoin and 25% to ether — The move follows registration for a standalone Truth Social bitcoin ETF earlier this month. — What to know:| Nieman Lab: |
2025 Digital News Report: social media overtakes TV as the top news source in the US, with 54% accessing news via social media and video apps, vs. 50% for TV — Plus: The pivot to video is really happening, digital subscriptions may have peaked, and other findings from RISJ's 2025 Digital News Report.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users — You have until August 4th to sign up and lock in the current rates instead. … Patreon has announced an update to its pricing …
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg
| 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, Quartz, The Independent, Tom's Hardware, and MassDevice
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