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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: Washington Post, Business Insider, and Bitcoin Insider
| 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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| 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
Threads: @crumbler. X: @cfgeek, @david_kasten, @kimmonismus, @michael05156007, @adonis_singh, and @jasondclinton
Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| 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: The Indian Express, Truepic on YouTube, Truepic, and NewsBytes
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils an updated iPad mini with A17 Pro, Apple Intelligence, and the same 8.3" display, starting at $499 with 128GB of storage, available to pre-order — Apple today announced a significant update to the iPad mini, featuring the powerful A17 Pro chip and support for the company's new Apple Intelligence system.
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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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X: @markgurman and @gateklons
| 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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| 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.
More: Business Insider, Scripps News, and TechSpot
| 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
| 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.
More: The Verge, XDA Developers, Ghacks, Android Police, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, WinBuzzer, and PCWorld
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| 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.
More: PR Newswire, FinSMEs, and PYMNTS.com
X: @rick_zullo and @ashleymayer
LinkedIn: Eric Donado and Brian Schwarzbach
| 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, Forbes, and Wccftech
X: @sama, @nearcyan, @i_dg23, @bobmcgrewai, @jawwwn_, and @basedbeffjezos
| Jon Victor / The Information: |
UK filings: Google DeepMind's operating profit rose 91% YoY to £136M in 2023, after Google Brain merger; Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs had £60.4M loss, up 3x+ YoY — 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
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| New York Times: |
Trump signaled he wouldn't break up Google if he regained the presidency, saying “China is afraid of Google” and questioning if it might “destroy the company” — The former president also said he would do “something” to make Google “more fair” if he regained the presidency.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Xscape, which develops data center interconnects using silicon photonics, raised a $44M Series A led by IAG Capital Partners, taking its total funding to $57M — The GPUs and other chips used to train AI communicate with each other inside data centers through “interconnects.”
More: Xscape Photonics, SiliconANGLE, TMCnet, and Light Reading
| 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: |
Overseas share sales by Taiwanese companies, led by chipmakers and hardware manufacturers, 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 expansion| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Monogoto, which offers software-defined connectivity tools for enterprises, raised a $27M Series A led by Toyota Ventures, taking its total funding to $38M — Connectivity and connected networks are part and parcel of the way many devices and services operate today, thanks to innovations …
More: Tech Funding News, SiliconANGLE, Monogoto, and FinSMEs
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