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Plus - WhatsApp says it disrupted a hacking campaign targeting journalists with Paragon spyware; Apple Intelligence will support more languages starting in April Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - How DeepSeek changed Silicon Valley’s AI landscape; Amazon hikes prices for its Music Unlimited subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

American teens have lost their faith in Big Tech, according to a new report from Common Sense Media, a nonprofit offering reviews and ratings for media and technology, which more recently includes AI products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Eric Schmidt says DeepSeek marks a ‘turning point’ for the global AI race; Waymo begins testing robotaxis on LA freeways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Flip, the TikTok Shop rival, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity; Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Threads rolls out a post scheduler, ‘markup’ feature, and more; X sees a jump in consumer spending on mobile, despite decline in daily active users Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2015, the blogging site Tumblr launched a GIF discovery feature called Tumblr TV as an experimental product. Now, with the U.S. TikTok ban leaving the fate of the short-form video app uncertain, Tumblr has decided it’s finally time to launch Tumblr TV, which has since evolved to support video, to all its users as one of its standard features. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Meta is building Oakley smart glasses for athletes; Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to US Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Plus - Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside the U.S. ‘for now’; DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices