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December 13, 2024, 10:10 AM

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Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Casey Newton / Platformer:
A look at Anthropic's Clio, an internal AI tool to identify new threats, disrupt coordinated abuse of the company's systems, and generate Claude usage insights  —  PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic's chatbot  —  The company didn't know it yet, but Anthropic had a spam problem.
Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Microsoft launches Phi-4, a 14B-parameter language model that it says outperforms comparable and larger models, like Gemini Pro 1.5, in mathematical reasoning  —  Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence model today that achieves remarkable mathematical reasoning capabilities …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
ServiceTitan's shares closed up 42.25% at $101 in its Nasdaq debut, giving the cloud software provider an ~$8.9B market cap after it raised ~$625M in its IPO  —  ServiceTitan shares popped 42% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the provider of cloud software to contractors raised around $625 million in its initial public offering.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Google unveils Android XR, a mixed reality OS for headsets and smart glasses, with Gemini built in, and plans a 2025 debut with Samsung's Project Moohan headset  —  I demoed Google's new Android XR platform, Samsung's Project Moohan, and prototype smart glasses.  I felt as close to Tony Stark in a controlled demo as I'll ever be.
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Kanishka Singh / Reuters:
Texas AG Ken Paxton opens investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and 11 others over their privacy and safety practices for minors  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday his office launched investigations into over a dozen technology platforms over their privacy and safety practices for minors.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to debut its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip in Apple TV and HomePod mini refreshes in 2025, in iPhones later in 2025, and iPads and Macs by 2026  —  - Company developing Proxima chip in separate move from modems  — New component will be part of Apple TV box and HomePod updates
Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware:
Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the default “sensitive information” filter enabled  —  Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it. … The new version of Recall encrypts …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The EU finds it breached its own privacy rules in a 2023 ad campaign on X that intended to sway opinions for a proposal to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM  —  The European Union's executive body is facing an embarrassing privacy scandal after it was confirmed on Friday that a Commission ad campaign …
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Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
The UK CMA opens a formal probe into BlackRock's acquisition of UK data provider Preqin over concerns that the £2.55B deal could stifle competition in the UK  —  A decision is due by Feb. 12 on whether the deal warrants an in-depth investigation  —  U.K. antitrust officials …
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