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October 21, 2024, 4:05 AM

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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
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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Wall Street Journal:
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
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 …
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
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.
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 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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