Welcome to Week 56 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team. Building with Dappier? Submit your AI Tool or project to get showcased!

AI News 📰

• OpenAI adds parental controls to ChatGPT, with safety changes rolling out amid heightened scrutiny of teen use – source. 

  • Meta has joined in as well, saying they’re likewise working to improve chatbot responses for teens in distress – source. 

• Meta’s Superintelligence Labs has already reportedly seen key high-priority hires revert back to orgs like OpenAI, as the company reshuffles its AI priorities – source. 

• OpenAI acquires product-testing platform Statsig for ~$1.1B and elevates founder Vijaye Raji to a key applications role – source. 

• Anthropic raises $13B at an estimated $183B valuation to scale Claude and enterprise AI – source. 

Dappier Updates 🛠️

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• Did you catch our interview with Pete Pachal at The Media Copilot?

  • What about our other recent discussion with Future Tech & Foresight podcast?

  • How about Dappier CEO Dan Goikhman’s previous interview on The Media Copilot?

• Our CTO Krish Arvapally’s most recent blog is on Monetizing with MCP: From Defense to Offense

  Monetize with MCP: From Defense to Offense

  Pay-per-crawl, scraping detection, and anti-bot tools are a defensive strategy — and an important one. Publishers absolutely should work…

  medium.com/@arvapallykrish/monetize-with-mcp-from-defense-to-offense-f0d883646d10

  

• Our CEO Dan Goikhman interviewed with TVNewsCheck on the launch of Perplexity Comet Plus

  

  Dappier commentary in TVNewsCheck

• Dappier was featured in an infographic from Luma Partners, as an AI-first company in ad tech.

  

  Dappier was featured in this infographic created by Luma Partners

• Check our integration page for the latest. If you’re building with Dappier, join our discord or check out mcp.dappier.com to dive right into Dappier’s MCP Server!

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Robots in the Wild 🤖

• Google revives Androidify, letting users create AI-generated Android mascots from selfies or prompts – source.

  • Google AI also introduced STAX, a practical framework for evaluating LLMs and their outputs – source. 

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

• President Trump dismissed a viral video of a trash bag falling from a White House window as “probably AI-generated,” after officials had already confirmed it was a contractor doing maintenance – source. 
  

• A federal judge ruled in Google’s favor as it navigates its DOJ antitrust case, saying AI systems could “end up being game changers” that threaten Google’s alleged monopoly on search. – source. 

Advancing AI Awards 🏆

This is where we’ll highlight AI in the real world today!

Last week we highlighted the launch of nano-banana. This week we’re highlighting some potential game-changing rumors around Apple’s AI efforts:

• According to Bloomberg, Apple is planning an AI-powered web search tool for Siri—positioning it to compete more directly with OpenAI and Google in answer-style search – source

Community Comments 🌎

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• Last week we shared our interview with The Media Copilot. This week we’re sharing a useful conversation - and positive comment on Dappier! - from the CRO of Reddit.