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The article suggests Target may be cutting jobs and analysts believe further negative impacts are expected.

This week is poised to be highly impactful for markets due to the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision and earnings releases from major tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet.

A senior investment officer at AllianceBernstein states that AI demand remains strong and is broadening beyond hardware into software and infrastructure, indicating a transition into an adoption phase with no slowdown in sight.

Meta Platforms (META) launched WhatsApp bill payments in India, integrating 22,722 billers into its platform.

Meta Platforms announced a settlement of up to $18 billion and a significant overhaul of its teen-usage policies following a landmark teen-safety lawsuit.

A new benchmark, EvalDetectBench, was introduced to measure 'evaluation awareness' in frontier large language models (LLMs), which refers to models recognizing when they are being evaluated.

A new academic methodology called I-CARE has been introduced to systematically study interference phenomena in generative AI unlearning, where models may forget unintended but semantically related concepts.

A new research paper titled 'HyperWorld' introduces a hypergraph-structured state serialization method for textual world models used in AI agents, demonstrating improved performance in predicting environment dynamics and planning, particularly for smaller models and under distribution shifts.

A new expert-validated STEM QA dataset (N=398) was introduced to address gaps in existing AI evaluation datasets, including performance saturation, skewed taxonomies, and misaligned question formats.

Meta Platforms removed advertisements for fraudulent applications disguised as pornographic content following an alert from India's government.

Meta has introduced new scam detection tools to enhance user safety on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Messenger, aiming to alert users of potential threats before they engage with suspicious content.

Kalshi has added a sharing feature to its platform, allowing users to embed prediction market charts into Meta's Threads posts, which could increase user engagement and drive adoption of both services.