If you’ve been eager to see ads in Meta-owned WhatsApp, your day has come. The ads will be available in Status, where people share photos, videos, voice notes and text with their mutual contacts, and in Channels. Personal Messages remain ad-free, but there’s always tomorrow.
CDP Lemnisk is also throwing its hat into the crowded AI ring. They’ve just released a “revolutionary set of industry-first AI Innovations” that include real-time, event-driven predictive scoring; entity-level identity resolution; and auto-transcription, sentiment extraction, and topic insights from audio recordings. Plus: MCP (Model Control Protocol) and API access to Lemnisk’s real-time profile store, so external models can feast on their data goodness.
The head of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment said the governor violated state law by agreeing to turn over information about people who provide homes for unaccompanied immigrant children due to a federal subpoena. The director claims this would force him to act illegally as part of his job.
The web search tool Perplexity looks like it’s taking on Google with its latest release, a web browser named Comet. Comet claims to move “from browsing to thinking,” surfacing information and search results in response to natural language queries. Comet is available immediately to Perplexity Max subscribers; others can join a wait list.