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July 31, 2024, 3:05 PM

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New York Times:
Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla, Mark Cuban, Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, and 100+ other VCs pledge to vote for Kamala Harris and solicit donations for her campaign  —  The group, including Democratic donors such as Reid Hoffman and Vinod Khosla, has been organized under an effort called VCsForKamala.
CNBC:
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian says the CrowdStrike-caused outage will cost the company $500M, after canceling 6,000+ flights, and Delta will seek damages  —  WATCH NOW  —  Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said Wednesday that the massive IT outage earlier this month that stranded thousands of customers will cost it $500 million.
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
Sources: the US plans to unveil a new rule next month to stop chipmaking equipment exports from some countries to China, exempting allies like the Netherlands  —  The Biden administration plans to unveil a new rule next month that will expand U.S. powers to stop exports of semiconductor …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft says that a nine-hour outage on July 30, which disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide, was triggered by a DDoS attack  —  Microsoft confirmed today that a nine-hour outage on Tuesday that took down and disrupted multiple Microsoft 365 and Azure services worldwide …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google rolls out online safety features to make removing explicit deepfakes from Search at scale easier and to prevent them from appearing high up in results  —  Google is rolling out new online safety features that make it easier to remove explicit deepfakes from Search at scale and prevent …
Billy Steele / Engadget:
Spotify plans to expand the availability of lyrics for Spotify Free users in the “coming weeks”; paid subscribers could access unlimited lyrics since May 2024  —  The company capped access at three songs per month in May.  —  Spotify users who don't pay for a subscription …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
District of Columbia AG Brian Schwalb sues StubHub, alleging the company uses “deceptive, manipulative, and unfair practices” to advertise event fees to users  —  StubHub is facing a new lawsuit that accuses the ticketing service of hiding fees from customers until the very end of the purchasing process.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
After users reported that Meta's generative AI assistant incorrectly claimed the attempted Donald Trump assassination did not happen, Meta blames hallucinations  —  Meta's AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn't happen …
The Information:
Jason Del Rey / Fortune:
Interviews with 24 current and former Amazon staff say Jeff Bezos' Amazon Way principles remain core under Andy Jassy but are now less universally agreed upon  —  When Amazon ordered most workers back to the office three days a week in February 2023, Pamela Hayter was not happy about the end of a popular pandemic-era arrangement.
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Aaron Holmes / The Information:
Source: TikTok was paying Microsoft ~$20M/mo. to use OpenAI's models in Azure OpenAI Service as of March, ~25% of the total revenue that service was generating  —  Microsoft has had success reselling OpenAI's artificial intelligence to its cloud customers, a core part of its plan to build a new multibillion-dollar profit machine.
Steve Smith / SlashGear:
Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra review: premium materials and build quality, and powerful Exynos processor, but too expensive, large, bulky, and only one size  —  - Premium materials and build quality - Significantly improved GPS tracking - New powerful Exynos processor - Excellent activity and sleep tracking
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Nothing unveils the Phone 2A Plus, offering the same 6.7-inch display as the 2A and a new MediaTek Dimensity 7350 Pro 5G SoC, available for $399 on August 7  —  Plus is often used in smartphone naming to delineate a larger model with a bigger screen, but that's not the case here.
Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal:
An investigation finds 450+ illicit drug ads on Facebook and Instagram from March to June 2024, some showing pill piles or cocaine bricks; Meta removed the ads  —  Instagram and Facebook, already under federal investigation, continue to run ads for illegal drugs, including ads showing piles of pills and bricks of cocaine
CNBC:
Nvidia shares jump 10%+ after Microsoft and AMD signaled no slowdown in the buildout of AI servers built around GPUs; Microsoft spent $19B on capex in Q4  —  Nvidia shares popped more than 11% Wednesday after remarks from top customer Microsoft and rival chipmaker AMD signaled no slowdown …
Sean Lyngaas / CNN:
A ransomware attack hits blood donation nonprofit OneBlood, which has asked over 250 hospitals in the US to activate their critical blood shortage protocols  —  A cyberattack has hit a blood-donation nonprofit that serves hundreds of hospitals in the southeastern US.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
AMD reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $5.84B, vs. $5.72B est., Data Center revenue up 115% to $2.8B, net income up 881% to $265M, Q3 revenue forecast above est.  —  Advanced Micro Devices reported second-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat Wall Street expectations for revenue and showed continued growth …
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM revenue up 4% YoY, devices revenue down 11% YoY, overall gaming revenue up 44% YoY, and Xbox content and services revenue up 61% YoY  —  Microsoft just posted the fourth and final quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results.  The software maker made $64.7 billion …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:

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