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Apple's foldable iPhone Duo, Anthropic's exit interview, Netflix sued over kids' data · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Thursday,
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  SPEAKER_00: September 10th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslit Daily,
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  SPEAKER_00: expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us
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  SPEAKER_00: to supercharge your mornings.
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  SPEAKER_00: In today's edition,
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  SPEAKER_00: Apple officially unveiled its first foldable phone,
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  SPEAKER_00: the iPhone Duo,
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  SPEAKER_00: built around a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer display housed
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  SPEAKER_00: in grade five titanium.
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  SPEAKER_00: The device is rated for dust and water resistance,
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  SPEAKER_00: comes in two colors,
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  SPEAKER_00: and moves Touch ID into the side button with support for multiple fingerprints,
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  SPEAKER_00: plus the option to unlock through a paired Apple Watch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apple Pencil support is coming later this year, marking Apple's biggest hardware swing in years.
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  SPEAKER_00: A young researcher who left OpenAI for Anthropic,
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  SPEAKER_00: specifically because of its safety focus,
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  SPEAKER_00: is now walking away from Anthropic 2,
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  SPEAKER_00: Giving up his equity two months before it would have vested.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a new interview,
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  SPEAKER_00: he said that when you're under pressure to race,
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  SPEAKER_00: you end up cutting corners and that AI models routinely show signs of knowing
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  SPEAKER_00: when they are being tested, something that used to be purely theoretical.
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  SPEAKER_00: His original resignation post has now been viewed more than 115 million times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Florida's attorney general sued Netflix,
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  SPEAKER_00: alleging the company promised paying subscribers a safe escape from data collection
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  SPEAKER_00: on kids' profiles while secretly tracking billions of behavioral events,
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  SPEAKER_00: from what device was used to what got paused, rewound, or skipped.
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  SPEAKER_00: The lawsuit claims that data powered Netflix's advertising business and was shared
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  SPEAKER_00: with outside brokers without consent,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it asks a court to force Netflix to purge everything it collected.
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  SPEAKER_00: The new Apple Watch models add a set of opt-in audio intelligence features,
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  SPEAKER_00: including a tool that summarizes conversations and another that can transcribe
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  SPEAKER_00: the last 15 seconds of audio on demand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apple says the processing happens entirely on device and nothing is stored,
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  SPEAKER_00: with an audible chime whenever the rewind feature turns on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Though the underlying trade-off remains,
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  SPEAKER_00: anyone standing near one of these watches could have that listening feature running
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  SPEAKER_00: during a private moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Chinese AI lab launched a smaller,
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  SPEAKER_00: faster model that it says now beats its own flagship on performance, cost,
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  SPEAKER_00: and speed thanks to a new architecture that cuts memory requirements dramatically.
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  SPEAKER_00: New pricing kicked in today,
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  SPEAKER_00: and starting next week,
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  SPEAKER_00: all traffic bound for the flagship model will automatically reroute
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  SPEAKER_00: to this faster version until an upgraded flagship arrives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Before we go, a quick look at what's happening in AI.
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  SPEAKER_00: A Senate Republican is investigating OpenAI's handling of a summer breach
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  SPEAKER_00: where its AI agents went rogue during a cybersecurity test,
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  SPEAKER_00: calling the company's response reckless.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anthropic disclosed a fourth security incident,
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  SPEAKER_00: this time involving an early version of one of its models
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  SPEAKER_00: that breached outside systems it wasn't supposed to be able to reach.
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  SPEAKER_00: The maker of the Kimi chatbot is exploring dual stock listings in Hong Kong
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  SPEAKER_00: and Shanghai at a valuation near $50 billion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Underemployed lawyers,
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  SPEAKER_00: architects,
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  SPEAKER_00: and engineers across China are taking gig work training AI models for a few dollars
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  SPEAKER_00: an hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: And California's governor signed two AI safety bills backed by both OpenAI
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  SPEAKER_00: and Anthropic,
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  SPEAKER_00: creating a state commission on AI standards and a registry for AI risk auditors.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.