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Texas AG opens a probe into the World Federation of Advertisers to determine if it conspired to boycott "certain social media platforms"; X sued WFA in August (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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The UK plans to draft a regulatory framework to oversee stablecoins and staking services as part of a single overarching regime for cryptoassets in early 2025 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

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Klarna's planned US IPO in H1 2025 could presage an uptick in IPOs by fintechs like Trustly, Chime, Zilch, Plaid, and Revolut after a relatively slow period (Bloomberg)

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Brave Search introduces AI chat to let users ask follow-up questions to initial queries, bringing together capabilities of chat-first and search-first tools (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Snap files to dismiss New Mexico's lawsuit over Snap's alleged child safety issues with predators, saying the complaint misrepresents the state's investigation (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

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SafeRent, an AI screening tool used by landlords, agrees to pay ~$2.3M to settle a discrimination lawsuit and will no longer display certain tenant scores (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Source: Google has canceled the development of a second-generation Pixel Tablet, planned for release in 2025, due to concerns that it wouldn't sell very well (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)

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Sources: OpenAI considered making a browser, discussed deals to power AI features on Samsung devices and search on sites and apps from Condé Nast and others (The Information)

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Sources: Apple is testing a more conversational version of Siri, dubbed "LLM Siri", with plans to release it in spring 2026 as part of iOS 19 and macOS 16 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Spotify adds new audiobook features for Premium users: video clips up to 30 seconds long, Author Pages, and visuals that appear while users listen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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Sources: a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and Circle are jostling for a seat on Trump's promised crypto advisory council, which is expected to set up a bitcoin reserve (Hannah Lang/Reuters)

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Sources: Amazon will likely face an EU investigati...

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The EU Parliament confirms Spain's Teresa Ribera as the next Competition Commissioner of the EU, replacing Margrethe Vestager (Lukas Knigge/Table.Media)

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In its latest security report, Meta says it removed 2M+ accounts this year connected to pig butchering scams conducted from Southeast Asia and the UAE (James Reddick/The Record)

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SEC chair Gary Gensler will step down on January 20; it has been traditional for SEC chairs to resign if the administration changes in the middle of their term (Brady Dale/Axios)

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Rabbit releases its teach mode in beta for all R1 users, letting them create and ask their own AI agents to automate tasks on websites (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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Crypto mining company Mara Holdings raised $1B through convertible notes, mostly to acquire bitcoin, as it expects bitcoin mining to flourish under Trump (Josh O'Sullivan/Cointelegraph)

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Meta is rolling out voice message transcripts on WhatsApp globally over the coming weeks in select languages, and says they are generated on users' devices (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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