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TWEAKS AND UPDATES Search Engine Land: Reddit says 80 million people now use its search weekly. “Eighty million people use Reddit search every week, Reddit said on its Q4 2025 earnings call […]

Search Engine Land: Reddit says 80 million people now use its search weekly. “Eighty million people use Reddit search every week, Reddit said on its Q4 2025 earnings call last week. The increase followed a major change: Reddit merged its core search with its AI-powered Reddit Answers and began positioning the platform as a place where users can start — and finish — their searches.” Euromaidan: Russia’s occupiers had a 60-second Telegram kill chain.

Their own government just turned it into a hours-long crawl. “Before the slowdown, target data from a drone reportedly reached fire teams in under two minutes. Now, without Telegram, it crawls through layers of internal communication — arriving too late to matter, the occupiers themselves admit.” Tubefilter: Will MrBeast’s latest acquisition form the foundation of his rumored financial services firm?.

“MrBeast‘s latest transaction will allow him to Step into the world of financial services. On X, the world’s most popular YouTube star announced that his company Beast Industries has acquired Step, a financial services app that appeals primarily to kids, teens, and young adults.” ARTNews: Dreaming of Creating a Giant Public Artwork With Google? Artist Judy Chicago Doesn’t Recommend It.. “The problems seem to have started right away.

The artist writes that she and Woodman immediately had to travel to Chicago on their own dime, in the absence of a signed contract or any payment, for a meeting requested by Google—a company with a current market capitalization of about $3.9 trillion.” Kyiv Post: Ukraine Says Russia Behind Fake Posts Targeting Winter Olympics Team. “Ukraine blamed a Russian disinformation campaign Thursday after fake news posted online about its Winter Olympics team, including a story criticizing an athlete disqualified for trying to highlight war deaths.” Mashable: Scammers are increasingly posing as loved ones, survey suggests.

“Phone number verification tool ClarityCheck just conducted a survey of around 1,900 adults in the U.S., UK, and European Union, and found that 64 percent of respondents have encountered a suspicious message or call that seemed to come from someone they knew.” NBC News: Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini. “Google says its flagship artificial intelligence chatbot, Gemini, has been inundated by ‘commercially motivated’ actors who are trying to clone it by repeatedly prompting it, sometimes with thousands of different queries — including one campaign that prompted Gemini more than 100,000 times.” Pace University: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes.

“Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold important information, or resist seeking treatment altogether.” University of Nebraska-Lincoln: University of Nebraska launches AI Institute to lead in ethical innovation, research and workforce development.

“The AI Institute will harness emerging technologies to serve society, grow the economy and support future generations through education, interdisciplinary research, teaching, workforce development and public engagement. Its work will span sectors like healthcare, agriculture, rural and urban development, business and national security, placing Nebraska at the forefront of applied AI research and advancement.” iRevolutions: Welcome to the Whistle Resistance: How a Ragtag Group of People are 3D-Printing Whistles at Scale to Keep Communities Safe.

“These Goblins & Avengers (there are nearly 200 of them) are 3D-printing free whistles at scale (500,000+ in less than 2 months and radically accelerating) and shipping them for free across 49 US states and Puerto Rico (80% of orders go out within 4 days) in response to requests from a wide range of individuals and local communities who use these whistles to alert their neighbors when ICE and Border Patrol are nearby.” Good afternoon, Internet… This newsletter is free but most of the things that go into making it aren’t!

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This report covers the latest developments in artificial intelligence. The information presented highlights key changes and updates that are relevant to those following this topic.

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