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📢 WhatsApp is officially getting ads
📱 Trump Mobile debuts $499 T1 gold smartphone
🧠 China brain trial patient plays games in three weeks
🇹🇼 Taiwan adds Huawei and SMIC to export controls
🤖 TikTok unveils AI-first video tools
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 📢 WhatsApp is officially getting ads LINK
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- WhatsApp will soon show advertisements from businesses directly within its Stories-like status feature, which lives inside the app's "Updates" tab.
- Meta says it personalizes these ads using limited details like your location or followed channels, and you can adjust preferences via Meta's Accounts Center.
- The company assures users it won't sell phone numbers to advertisers or use personal messages and calls to inform the ads you see.
| 📱 Trump Mobile debuts $499 T1 gold smartphone LINK
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- Trump Mobile announced its T1, a gold-colored smartphone priced at $499, which is slated to ship by August with a "Made in USA" claim.
- This device offers a 6.8-inch Punch-Hole AMOLED display, 12GB memory, Android 15, and a 50MP main camera, yet its processor remains undisclosed.
- Experts question the "designed and built in the United States" claim for the phone, as many components like screens must be imported from overseas.
| 🧠 China brain trial patient plays games in three weeks LINK
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- A patient with tetraplegia in China played computer racing games and chess using only thoughts, weeks after receiving a wireless invasive brain-computer interface implant.
- China's first clinical trial of brain-computer interfaces enabled a person with paralysis to mentally control electronic devices for complex tasks like computer gaming.
- The Chinese-developed BCI is the world's smallest so far and over 100 times more flexible than Neuralink's system, according to the report.
| 🇹🇼 Taiwan adds Huawei and SMIC to export controls LINK
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- Taiwan has added Huawei and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) to its export control list, citing national security and weapons proliferation concerns.
- Taiwanese businesses must now obtain permits from the International Trade Administration to export strategic high-tech commodities to Huawei, SMIC, and other listed firms.
- This move makes Taiwan the second country globally, after the United States, to publicly place both Huawei and SMIC onto an official export control list.
| 🤖 TikTok unveils AI-first video tools LINK
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- TikTok introduced tools for marketers to generate five-second video ad clips by simply uploading a product photo or providing a brief text description.
- The new text- and image-to-video features now expand TikTok's Symphony product, a suite designed to help brands make ads using generative AI.
- Alongside these, TikTok presented Symphony Digital Avatars, AI Dubbing for global translations, and its Symphony Collective to produce distinct TikTok-first content.
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Other news & articles you might like
- German government moves closer to ditching Microsoft: "We're done with Teams!" LINK
- Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11's startup sound with Vista's LINK
- Reddit's AI Paradox: A Top Google Source in AI Overviews, But Facing a Traffic Crisis LINK
- New York may soon require AI giants to publish safety protocols before releasing LLMs LINK
- BT boss: AI could lead to even greater staff cuts LINK
- US pushes Vietnam to decouple from Chinese tech, sources say LINK
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Trending research and tools
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Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant for essay writing task: using an AI assistant for essay writing can lead to a growing deficit in the user's own critical thinking and writing skills. LINK
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Twin: a text-based windowing environment that features mouse support, a window manager, terminal emulator, networked clients, and allows displays to be attached/detached on-the-fly. LINK
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Zeekstd: a Rust tool for the ZSTD seekable format, enabling selective decompression of archive sections, which avoids processing the entire file to access specific data. LINK
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Seastar: an early-stage C/C++ build and dependency manager with Cargo-like features, aiming for easier project development and multi-language support. LINK
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Socket-call: a library for socket.io that lets developers call socket events as if they were normal JavaScript functions, simplifying event handling. LINK
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The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking - A Comment on Shojaee et al. (2025): this paper argues that the 'illusion of thinking' proposed by Shojaee et al. (2025) is itself an illusion. LINK
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