|
July 16, 2024, 12:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: San Francisco Business Times, Le Monde.fr, Barron's Online, Financial Times, New York Times, Interesting Engineering, Bloomberg, Cryptonews, CNBC, Blockonomi, Quartz, The Block, International Business Times, Rolling Stone, Semafor, Deadline, CryptoPotato, Electrek, CoinGape, Decrypt, Coinspeaker, The Crypto Times, Benzinga, The Guardian, TMZ.com, New York Post, The Independent, The Hill, The Verge, and Associated Press
Threads: @karaswisher, @bobschooley, @joe_rosenthal, and @renee.diresta
Bluesky: @boyq.bsky.social and @marypcbuk.bsky.social
X: @elonmusk, @acyn, @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
| 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: Washington Post, Reuters, BusinessLIVE, Electrek, Barron's Online, and Rolling Stone
| 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.
More: Mercury News, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Semafor, Fast Company, Quartz, Stratechery, CCN.com, Bitcoin Insider, The Information, The San Francisco Standard, Decrypt, Yahoo Finance, and San Francisco Chronicle
Threads: @katieharbath and @oneunderscore__
Mastodon: @jeff@newsie.social, @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io, and @tristansnell@mstdn.social
X: @elonmusk, @hhorsley, @elonmusk, @zebulgar, @tweetsintheme, @erikvoorhees, @bo_austin_, @dsquareddigest, @matthewstoller, @jwmason1, @goadgatsby, @nikhil_palsingh, @jessicalessin, @tracewoodgrains, @timsweeneyepic, @jstein_wapo, @mattyglesias, @adamjohnsonchi, @eric_erins, @vivekgramaswamy, @eric_seufert, @silvermanjacob, @shayne_coplan, @pjux, @danprimack, @mattturck, @tylerhnorris, @ashleyrgold, @matthewstoller, @lutherlowe, @danprimack, @shakeelhashim, @anothercohen, @zck, @buccocapital, @danprimack, and @eriqgardner
| The Information: |
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 … | 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.
More: 9to5Mac and Benzinga
Threads: @simondowens, @benedictevans, and @crumbler
X: @mcelhearn, @mediaevan, and @lessin
| 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
More: The Verge, BBC, Gizmodo, Benzinga, Wired, PCMag, CNN, Hackread, Infosecurity, Business Insider, CSO, ComingSoon.net, SC Media, Cord Cutters News, Dexerto, Deadline, PYMNTS.com, Cyber Daily, IGN, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Variety, PaymentSecurity.io, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Eurogamer.net, and KitGuru
X: @nullbulgegroup, @pirat_nation, @campuscodi, @h4ckmanac, @physicalmedia_, @nnwakelam, @vxunderground, @nullbulgegroup, @sarthakgh, @hostilespectrum, @h4ckmanac, @nnwakelam, @troyhunt, @lukwam, and @andrewcouts
LinkedIn: Sarah Krouse and Gene Chuang
| 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| Proof: |
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 …
More: 9to5Mac, Dexerto, Nieman Lab, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacDailyNews, and Social Media Examiner
X: @mkbhd, @mkbhd, @sarafischer, @leonieclaude, @dwiskus, @neilturkewitz, @proof__news, @neilturkewitz, @_felixsimon_, @sophiasgaler, @fb_bmb, @juliaangwin, and @_felixsimon_. Forums: r/technology
| 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 … | 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 …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Marques Brownlee on YouTube, TechCrunch, The Verge, WinBuzzer, Trak.in, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories, Mashable, London Evening Standard, Wccftech, Neowin, MySmartPrice, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, MacRumors on YouTube, AppStories, GSMArena.com, MacStories, Stephen Robles on YouTube, The Verge, Cult of Mac, Cult of Mac, MacStories, 9to5Mac, OS X Daily, TechCrunch, Thurrott, iPhone in Canada Blog, Six Colors, Six Colors, Six Colors, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Redmond Pie, CNBC, TechRadar, Engadget, Engadget, Washington Post, PCMag, Digital Trends, Wired, Tom's Guide, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, BGR, BGR, BGR, BGR, BGR, ZDNet, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Brandon Butch on YouTube, zollotech on YouTube, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, CNET, iMore, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, and BGR
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, NewsBytes, and AppleInsider
X: @thebradfad and @stalman
| 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: Network World, The Register, TechRadar, ITPro, MacDailyNews, 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, Constellation Research, WinBuzzer, MarkTechPost, Tech Xplore, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, SiliconANGLE, and Neowin
X: @mikeelgan, @stevesi, and @rao_hacker_one
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26 — Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26 — Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Zoho:
The best time to become a Zoho Partner — The business world is not only changing but it is being rebuilt. Customers want connected ecosystems that will help them automate, unify their data, and do more with less.
The best time to become a Zoho Partner — The business world is not only changing but it is being rebuilt. Customers want connected ecosystems that will help them automate, unify their data, and do more with less.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's 2026 Priority, Disney's AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Access:
Why the next AI frontier is phone calls, with Beside CEO Maxime Germain
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Great Chat:
So what happens after AGI?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He's a Must-Read Media Gossip.
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:10 PM ET, July 16, 2024.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:Financial Times:
Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| The Information: |
More: SC Media, Fortune, and Wall Street Journal
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
More: The Cyber Express, Search Engine Journal, SecurityWeek, SiliconANGLE, TechRadar, and SC Media
Mastodon: @technotenshi@infosec.exchange, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, and @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
X: @celernetwork, @pendle_fi, @compoundfinance, @samczsun, and @wordpressdotcom. Forums: Hacker News
| Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY: |
More: BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, Tom's Hardware, CNN, Metacurity, SC Media, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, Proactive, PC Gamer, BBC, PCMag, Tech Monitor, TechRadar, Security Affairs, Silicon Republic, ITPro, Tech.co, The Register, Cybernews.com, Axios, The Cyber Express, Neowin, The Hacker News, and ZDNet
Bluesky: @evacide.bsky.social. X: @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @dcwebguy, @gumby4christ, and @ericgeller. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
More: 9to5Google, Canalys, IDC, 9to5Mac, Counterpoint Research, Light Reading, PCMag, The Register, Taipei Times, RCR Wireless News, and TechSpot