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October 16, 2024, 8:50 AM

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Bloomberg:
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
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
The Citizen Lab:
An analysis of WeChat's network protocol MMTLS finds that it is a modified version of TLS 1.3 and WeChat developers' changes to its cryptography add weaknesses  —  Key contributions  — We performed the first public analysis of the security and privacy properties of MMTLS …
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%
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.
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
The Cybersecurity Association of China says Intel products sold in the country should be subject to a security review, alleging it has “constantly harmed” China  —  Intel (INTC.O) products sold in China should be subject to a security review, the Cybersecurity Association of China …
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.
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 …
Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:
A profile of Neuralink's top neurosurgeon Matthew MacDougall, who has worked there for seven years and is an even-keeled, affable counterbalance to Elon Musk  —  While the controversial CEO sees a future merging of human minds with machine, Matthew MacDougall may actually be the man you'd want putting a chip in your brain.
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.
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 expansion

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