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WhatsApp partners with PayU to roll out prepaid mobile recharges in India; it remains a marginal payments player in India despite launching payments in 2020 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/whatsap…

WhatsApp adds prepaid phone recharges in India as its payments usage still lags | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is rolling out prepaid phone recharges to its 500 million users in India via PayU.

Sozialgerichte kämpfen mit KI-Klagen – oft zum Bürgergeld
Immer mehr Bürger kämpfen mit KI-generierten Klagen beispielsweise ums Bürgergeld – und bringen Richter an ihre Grenzen. Was das für die Verfahren bedeutet.

As if things weren't bad enough, scam compounds are growing in malware sophistication.
Cambodian compound found with new type of scam malware: researchers
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cybersecurity/cambodian-com…

Cambodian compound found with new type of scam malware: researchers
US-based firm and Vietnamese NPO say crime becoming easier to carry out

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 4.1
told researchers pretending to be delusional that
there was indeed a doppelganger in their mirror
and they should drive an iron nail through the glass
while reciting Psalm 91 backwards.
https://www.

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue https://phys.org/news/2026-02-widely-method-underestimates-forests-ability.html

Widely used method underestimates forests' ability to prevent major floods, researchers argue
Researchers from the University of British Columbia argue that a widely used method to understand and predict flood risk has led scientists to miscalculate how forests can prevent major flooding. The paper, published in Ambio, synthesizes decades of research to explain why the standard approach used to evaluate how forests impact flooding—comparing individual flood peaks before and after disturbance—fails to capture how floods actually develop.

Interesting and comprehensive report about sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns involving mobile operator signaling infrastructure https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/

Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors - The Citizen Lab
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.

Google now offers two research agents: Deep Research, replacing its December preview release, and Deep Research Max, both available via Gemini API paid tiers (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/…

Deep Research Max: a step change for autonomous research agents
Introducing Deep Research and Deep Research Max, the next generation of Google’s autonomous research agents.

Tencent releases Hy3-preview, its first AI model developed under former OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu; the model features 295B parameters, down from HY2's 400B (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Tencent unveils first flagship AI model under former OpenAI researcher
The model is relatively small with only 295 billion parameters, bucking a recent trend of large models with trillions of parameters.

Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-fluency-index

Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index
Anthropic's AI Fluency Index measures 11 observable behaviors across thousands of Claude.ai conversations to understand how people develop AI collaboration skills.

Anthropic introduces "persona selection model", a theory to explain AI's human-like behavior, and details how AI personas form in pre-training and post-training (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model

The persona selection model
A theory of why AI models act like humans