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Filing: Elon Musk poured ~$75M into his pro-Trump America PAC, making seven donations between July 3 and September 5; Musk was the PAC's only donor — - Disclosure is first look into Musks' donations to Trump group — Super PAC spent $69 million to bolster Trump's ground game| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5M to pro-Trump super PAC Right For America; Andreessen also gave ~$844K to the GOP and Trump campaign — - Horowitz later said he would also donate to Democrat Harris — Apollo's Marc Rowan also contributed to pro-Trump super PAC
More: MarketWatch, Cryptopolitan, Business Insider, and Bitcoin Insider
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
YouTube rolls out a new “captured with a camera” label, using the C2PA standard to detect if the video came from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound — YouTube is rolling out new labels that tell if uploaded videos come from a real camera with unaltered footage and sound.
More: Silicon Republic, Truepic on YouTube, The Indian Express, Truepic, and NewsBytes
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
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| CoinDesk: |
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial crypto project gets off to a bumpy start, as its website crashes and WLFI token sales fall far short of the $300M target — A blockchain wallet connected to the token holds nearly $4 million worth of ether (ETH), $1.2 million of tether (USDT) and around $250,000 USD Coin (USDC) tokens.| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, setting benchmarks for when an AI model's abilities reach a point where additional safeguards are necessary — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular Claude chatbot, today announced a sweeping update …
More: Anthropic and Platformer
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Android 15 to Pixel devices, adding privacy features like a “private space” for apps, security tools, and foldable and tablet improvements — Android 15 is now rolling out to Pixel devices, bringing them new privacy features, security tools, and improvements for foldables and tablets.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled — Meta is adding an “activity status” to Threads so that you can see who's actively online as you're scrolling your feed.
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| Wired: |
A review of Character.AI finds several instances of AI personas being created without a person's consent, seemingly violating the company's terms of service — Character.AI lets users create bots in the likeness of any person—without requiring their consent.
Threads: @cwarzel, @kylie.robison, and @laurengoode
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A teardown of Microsoft's diskless Xbox Series X, which was released today, shows a redesigned motherboard, a 6nm chip, and a new cooling system — Microsoft's discless Xbox Series X goes on sale today, and while it looks slightly different on the outside thanks to a white paint job and lack …
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 68% of US adults support a ban on middle and high school students using phones during class and 24% oppose it; 53% oppose a ban lasting full school days — As lawmakers and educators crack down on cellphone use in schools, most Americans back bans on using phones in classrooms but are less supportive of full-day restrictions.| Bloomberg: |
ASML's stock falls the most since 1998 after projecting sluggish sales, erasing €50B from its market cap and causing Nvidia and other chip stocks to fall — - Magnitude of ASML's forecast cut was a surprise, Citi says — Peer Tokyo Electron among worst hit stocks in Asia, down 10%
More: MarketWatch, Benzinga, Reuters, Reuters, Yahoo Lifestyle, CNBC, The Daily Upside, and BusinessLIVE
| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel and AMD forge an x86 ecosystem advisory group to ensure a unified x86 instruction set architecture moving forward, amid competition from Arm and RISC-V — Cats and dogs, living together! — In a rare public-facing display of cooperation between two of the industry's fiercest rivals …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Q&A with Kevin Rose on Digg, what Reddit got right, the rise of news feeds, Techmeme being the place “to just see globally what's happening in tech”, and more — a couple of years, there was nothing on the internet so simultaneously thrilling and terrifying as having your website hit the front page of Digg.| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory with more than 6,000 members, raised a $40M Series C led by L Catterton — Ghost cofounders Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy. — MATT CLERKIN AT CLERK CREATIVE — At Ghost, all product development groups are named after, well, ghosts.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
Chrome begins disabling uBlock Origin as part of Google's plan to phase out Manifest V2 extensions; uBlock Origin has 39M+ downloads on the Chrome Web Store — The browser is doing so as part of Google's plan to phase out older Manifest V2 extensions to bolster Chrome's security.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of Palantir, joins OpenAI as its CISO and will serve alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight — Dane Stuckey, the former CISO of analytics firm Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its newest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of security Matt Knight.
More: Bloomberg and Forbes
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out a personalized Shopping feed based on recent searches and YouTube history, coming to mobile first, and adds AI-generated shopping tips — Google Shopping is rolling out a personalized feed that shows you a stream of products you might like.| Jon Victor / The Information: |
UK filings: Google DeepMind's 2023 operating profit rose 91% YoY to £136M, after the Google Brain merger; Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs loss rose 3x+ YoY to £60.4M — Source: — Operating profit at Google's AI research unit, DeepMind, increased 91% last year to 136 million pounds …
More: Financial Times and Sifted
| Prarthana Prakash / Fortune: |
Amsterdam-based Tebi, a payments app aimed at independent businesses like bars and cafes, raised a €20M Series A led by Index Ventures — Tebi was founded in 2021. — One of the founders of Dutch fintech star Adyen, Arnout Schuijff, has been quietly building out his next startup since leaving …
More: Reuters, Tebi, Tech Startups, Tech Funding News, and Silicon Canals
LinkedIn: Michael Nugent, Johannes Michel, and Tebi
| Saul Klein / Wired: |
A look at a cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London that collectively have 500+ startups with at least $100M of annual revenue — A cluster of European cities within a five-hour train ride of London could become a unicorn factory to rival Silicon Valley, argues tech investor Saul Klein.| Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: overseas share sales by Taiwanese companies, led by chip and hardware makers, have totalled $2.9B so far in 2024, on track for the most since 2007 — - Share sales by Taiwan firms abroad totalled $2.9 billion — Hon Hai among issuers seeking cash to fund capacity expansionSponsor Posts
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