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After Elon Musk promises to give $1M to one swing state voter per day who signs his PAC's petition, PA's governor says “law enforcement could take a look” — Musk announced Saturday that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a randomly selected voter who signs a petition circulated by his super PAC.
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Sources: Perplexity is looking to raise ~$500M to double its valuation to $8B or more; Perplexity's annualized revenue is ~$50M, up from ~$10M in March 2024 — Search-based chatbot seeks to raise about $500 million in what would be its fourth funding round in a year
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: some at Apple think it is over two years behind the leaders in generative AI; a closer look at changes in Apple's HR and hardware engineering groups — Apple's new iPad mini highlights the company's secret advantage in artificial intelligence. Also: Sonos weighs a headphone reboot …
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| Nicholas Fearn / Financial Times: |
ABI expects there to be 8,400 global data centers by 2030, as investors capitalize on the AI boom; Statista projects the industry will be worth $624B by 2029 — The assets offer consistent returns but come with risks including a high environmental impact — Spending time in a warm … | Bloomberg: |
Tracxn: Indian health tech-related startups raised $3.7B since 2022, about half of the $7.4B raised in the sector across the Asia Pacific region — - Hospitals often understaffed with overworked doctors, nurses — Covid spawned startups facilitating e-services, not all lasted| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
How OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are using differing approches to improve “model behavior”, an emerging field shaping AI systems' responses and characteristics — Leading artificial intelligence companies that are racing to develop the cutting-edge technology are tackling … | Wired: |
At a San Francisco protest, blind Uber and Lyft users say the companies aren't doing enough to stop drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments — At a protest in San Francisco, blind Uber and Lyft users claim that the ride-hailing companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning them away.| Washington Post: |
A look at the Harris campaign's outreach to the tech sector, as it tries to convince companies that she'll chart her own course while avoiding policy specifics — The Democratic candidate is pulling out the stops to signal a less confrontational stance toward the tech sector, and it appears to be paying off.
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| Lisa Bonos / Washington Post: |
Polymarket users have bet ~$2B on predicting the next US president; Polymarket has excluded US users since 2022 as part of a settlement with federal regulators — SAN FRANCISCO — Scott Owens, an amateur watchmaker in Madison, Wis., waited years for a chance to legally bet money on U.S. politics.| Bloomberg: |
Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools — About two-thirds of teachers report regularly using tools for detecting AI-generated content. At that scale, even tiny error rates can add up quickly.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic evaluates four “sabotage” threat vectors for its Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models and finds that “minimal mitigations are sufficient” — Any industry where there are potential harms needs evaluations. Nuclear power stations have continuous radiation monitoring …
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| Daysia Tolentino / NBC News: |
After allegations of poor working conditions on MrBeast's Amazon Studios show Beast Games, industry insiders call for more safety oversight on creator-run sets — YouTube channels are gaining more mainstream attention — but some in the digital entertainment industry think growth should require better oversight.Sponsor Posts
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Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
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