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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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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.
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Sources: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have told a16z staff in recent days that they plan to make large donations to PACs supporting Donald Trump's campaign — Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who run one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firms, have told the firm's employees … | Vittoria Elliott / Wired: |
A look at Trump VP pick JD Vance's tech ties, like working at Peter Thiel's Mithril Capital and investing in Rumble; Vance advocated for 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.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Taboola CEO Adam Singolda says the company has struck a deal with Apple to power native advertising in the Apple News and Apple Stocks apps; TBLA jumps ~5% — - Taboola's effort to build trust with Apple across its various teams and stakeholders was “a multiyear process,'” Singolda said.| Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold details, including photos, battery sizes, and charging speeds, leak from Taiwanese regulator NCC — The upcoming Pixels leak yet again — this time giving us a real life look at the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. — •
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Investigation: Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic, and others trained their AI on a dataset that contained YouTube video transcripts, including from the WSJ, MrBeast, MIT — Creators claim their videos were used without their knowledge — AI companies are generally secretive about their sources of training data … | Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA opens a formal investigation into Microsoft's Inflection AI investment, and sets a September 11 deadline on whether to open 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
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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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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 … | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google offered CISPE ~€455M worth of Google Cloud licenses and €14M in cash on condition that CISPE maintain its antitrust complaint against Microsoft — - Cloud group rejected Google package to keep their EU case — CISPE eventually reached antitrust settlement with Microsoft
More: Engadget, Network World, The Register, TechRadar, ITPro, MacDailyNews, NewsBytes, and Jordan Times
X: @samuelstolton and @cailen
| Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat: |
Vectara, which offers AI “grounded search”, or Retrieval Augmented Generation, tools for enterprises, 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, Vectara, and Business Wire
| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
Apple launches the first public betas of 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 …
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