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Sources: Elon Musk plans to commit ~$45M per month to America PAC, a new pro-Trump super PAC; other backers include 8VC's Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins — Other backers of America PAC include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale and the Winklevoss twins
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Threads: @karaswisher, @bobschooley, @joe_rosenthal, and @renee.diresta
Bluesky: @boyq.bsky.social and @marypcbuk.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @zaidjilani, @rpyers, @nycsouthpaw, @petresolheim, @jahanminoo, @nkingofdc, @john_hudson, @benjysarlin, @darrigomelanie, @kevinrothrock, @profbillmcguire, @teddyschleifer, @jhweissmann, @quinnypig, @mattyglesias, @tariqkrim, @teddyschleifer, @rpyers, @mrwiggles64, @thesampadilla, @internethippo, @wholemarsblog, @eastendjoe, @silvermanjacob, @alexnpress, @janemayernyer, @silvermanjacob, and @trgenovese
| Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
A look at Trump VP pick JD Vance's tech ties, including working at Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital and investing in Rumble; Vance advocated repealing Section 230 — Vance has long had connections to Silicon Valley through his former life as a venture capitalist, including to long-time Donald Trump supporter and investor Peter Thiel.
More: TechCrunch, Associated Press, Stratechery, CCN.com, Bitcoin Insider, The Information, Bloomberg, The San Francisco Standard, Decrypt, Yahoo Finance, San Francisco Chronicle, Quartz, The Verge, and New York Post
X: @elonmusk, @tweetsintheme, @jwmason1, @jstein_wapo, @elonmusk, @zebulgar, @erikvoorhees, @danprimack, @bo_austin_, @dsquareddigest, @ashleyrgold, @eriqgardner, @matthewstoller, @lutherlowe, @danprimack, @shakeelhashim, @goadgatsby, @pjux, @nikhil_palsingh, @jessicalessin, @eric_seufert, @matthewstoller, @shayne_coplan, @danprimack, @zck, @buccocapital, @tracewoodgrains, @timsweeneyepic, @mattyglesias, @anothercohen, @adamjohnsonchi, @eric_erins, @silvermanjacob, @vivekgramaswamy, @tylerhnorris, and @mattturck
| New York Times: |
After Trump was shot, Elon Musk backed his bid and made 100+ posts stepping up his political speech, entering uncharted territory for a social media leader — The owner of X broke with tradition at other social media companies to support the former president, as he drives political conversation on his site.
More: The Information, Reuters, Washington Post, Electrek, Rolling Stone, Quartz, Crypto Adventure, Silicon Republic, and Newser
| Wall Street Journal: |
Nullbulge, a hacktivist group critical of AI art, leaks Disney's alleged Slack messages over “how it handles artist contracts” and AI; Disney is investigating — ‘Hacktivist’ group critical of AI-generated art says it has obtained swaths of data from Disney's Slack channels, some of which it has published online
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X: @nullbulgegroup, @pirat_nation, @nnwakelam, @nnwakelam, @lukwam, @vxunderground, @nullbulgegroup, @campuscodi, @h4ckmanac, @andrewcouts, @physicalmedia_, @sarthakgh, @hostilespectrum, @h4ckmanac, and @troyhunt
LinkedIn: Sarah Krouse and Gene Chuang
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
UMG, Sony, and other record labels sue Verizon for $2.6B+ over allegations of violating copyright law by continuing to serve customers accused of pirating music — Lawsuit: One user's IP address was identified in 4,450 infringement notices. — Major record labels sued Verizon on Friday … | Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple launches the public betas for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, tvOS 18, and watchOS 11, but without any Apple Intelligence features — You can now download the public betas for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11. Apple's updated operating systems will eventually include …
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Forums: r/apple, r/ios, MacRumors Forums, MacRumors Forums, MacRumors Forums, and MacRumors Forums
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
More: Business Standard, BGR, TechRadar, The Verge, MobileSyrup, AppleInsider, and NewsBytes
X: @thebradfad and @stalman
| Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens a formal investigation into Microsoft's Inflection AI investment, and sets a September 11 deadline on opening an in-depth investigation — - CMA said it needs to look further at the firm's partnership — Watchdog is taking closer order of Big Tech investment into AI
More: Financial Times, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, GOV.UK, Quartz, and CNBC
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google offered CISPE ~€455M worth of Google Cloud licenses and €14M in cash in a deal for CISPE to maintain its antitrust complaint against Microsoft — - Cloud group rejected Google package to keep their EU case — CISPE eventually reached antitrust settlement with Microsoft
More: CTech, The Register, ITPro, MacDailyNews, TechRadar, NewsBytes, and Jordan Times
X: @samuelstolton and @cailen
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft researchers unveil SpreadsheetLLM, an encoding method designed to enable LLMs to efficiently understand and analyze complex spreadsheet data — Microsoft researchers have unveiled “SpreadsheetLLM,” a new AI model designed to understand and work with spreadsheets, in a significant development for the world of enterprise AI.
More: arXiv, MarkTechPost, Tom's Guide, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, The Stack, and AIM
X: @mikeelgan, @stevesi, and @rao_hacker_one
| Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's CAC requires AI companies to prepare between 20K and 70K questions designed to test whether their AI models produce safe answers before release — Government support helps China's generative AI companies gain ground on U.S. competitors, but political controls threaten to weigh them down
X: @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, @lizalinwsj, and @jchengwsj
| Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: |
Kaspersky plans to close its US business and eliminate US-based positions, following the country's ban on the sale of its antivirus tool starting July 20 — Russian cybersecurity firm, Kaspersky Lab, has told workers in its U.S.-based division that they are being laid off this week …
More: CNN, BleepingComputer, SC Media, TechCrunch, PCMag, Security Affairs, Tech Monitor, SiliconANGLE, TechRadar, Tech.co, ITPro, Silicon Republic, The Register, BBC, Cybernews.com, Axios, The Cyber Express, Neowin, ZDNet, and The Hacker News
Bluesky: @evacide.bsky.social. X: @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @dcwebguy, @gumby4christ, and @ericgeller. Forums: Slashdot
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Vectara, which offers AI “grounded search”, or Retrieval Augmented Generation, tools to enterprise, raised a $25M Series A, following a $28.5M seed in 2023 — Vectara, an early pioneer in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology, is raising a $25 million Series …
More: FinSMEs and Business Wire
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