📰 From the Digest

Augustine Fou explains how attackers used phone numbers and network IDs, not inferred audiences, to deliver spyware to journalists through ads.

Citizen Lab found Discover-Tech used online ads to deliver zero-click Candiru spyware to devices at Al Jazeera.

The riskiest slice of SpaceX's $40 billion debt raise is expected to pay well above 8%, versus about 6% for similarly rated bonds.

OpenAI has reportedly lowered its target valuation as investors push back on its $1.4 trillion mark.

The tech selloff, which shaved nearly 3% off the Nasdaq 100 in a day, is pushing companies to rethink IPO plans.

Microsoft abandoned its lease at Nscale's flagship Essex data centre, citing power supply concerns.

After OpenAI released solutions to more than 700 math problems, Terence Tao said the 'romantic era' of mathematics is over.

Kenneth Rona argues Apple's Safari identity block, Netflix's ad forecast cut and OpenAI's ad rewrites all push spend toward logged-in platforms.

Netflix is rolling out in-DSP ad measurement with The Trade Desk and Yahoo as marketers at the ANA pivot back to brand-building.

Salesforce agreed to acquire Braze, absorbing a major competitor to its Marketing Cloud.

Scott Brinker argues martech is shifting from apps to open infrastructure, which could balance buyer power even as consolidation continues.

Omnicom won Coca-Cola's North American media business weeks after PepsiCo ended a nearly 30-year relationship.

A Basis study found 61.4% of media professionals use AI daily, with agents treated as junior assistant planners.

CartographAI says creators came up in more brand conversations this month than any other topic, as brands ask how to manage them at scale.

Ben Thompson argues Netflix has a solid business but increasingly looks like a business rather than a growth franchise.