Researchers: during the 12-day Iran-Israel war, both sides engaged in unprecedented psychological warfare using AI content and social media to spread propaganda (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/technology/israel-iran-psychological-warfa…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/technology/israel-iran-psychological-warfare.html
Israel and Iran Usher In New Era of Psychological Warfare
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CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330 incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to "hacking-for-hire" (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/china-hackin…
China, which pledged $8.5B for young AI startups in April, is taking an industrial policy approach to help its AI companies close the gap with those in the US (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/technol
WhatsApp rolls out ads in its Updates tab, a first for the app, and will collect some data to target the ads, but says it has no plans to put ads in chats (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/technology/whatsapp-ads.html