This week on Reality Bytes, we dive into Instagram’s messaging overhaul, start ‘circling’ with Google, and uncover a data privacy scandal around DeepSeek and ByteDance. See the quick-hit takeaways below, followed by this week’s episode, brought to you by M7 Innovations.

– Instagram’s Direct Messages are becoming a new social network: Are they Building a Super-App? Jump to Story

– Google’s Circle to Search is a behavioral trojan horse: Will this feature solidify Google’s search dominance? Jump to Story

– DeepSeek allowed a deep leak of user data to Bytedance in Korea: is the new Cold War an AI data War? Jump to Story

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