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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : At the UN Summit of the Future, Sundar Pichai says Google will create a $120M fund to provide AI education globally, calls for “smart product regulation”, more   —  Speaking Saturday at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” …

Brody Ford / Bloomberg : Memo: Zoom plans to cut back on stock-based compensation, saying equity has been issued at a rate that is “not sustainable”, joining peers like Salesforce   —  - Equity awards are ‘not sustainable,’ CEO Yuan writes in memo  — Tech investors and executives concerned about share dilution

President Biden is meeting privately with the three other world leaders that make up the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue at his Delaware estate. The White House released statements acknowledging the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida already, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was spotted arriving at the home on Saturday. The meetings are taking place in the president's hometown of Wilmington — an excessively private affair that has sparked outrage from the White House Correspondents' Association. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION PROTESTS 'UNACCEPTABLE' LACK OF PRESS ACCESS AT BIDEN'S QUAD SUMMIT The foreign leaders are invited to a low-profile dinner on Saturday night hosted at Archmere Academy, the president's former school. Administration officials have tried to characterize the unusual format and venue for the event as a gesture of hospitality, but media figures have protest...

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : Docs: in Perplexity's new ad model, brands will be able to bid for a “sponsored” question, which features an AI-generated answer approved by the advertiser   —  AI search start-up develops ‘sponsored’ question system in effort to gain share of $300bn digital ads industry

Ash Parrish / The Verge : Twitch changes enforcement of community guidelines so that strikes for some offenses will depreciate over time, users will get more info on strikes, and more   —  Twitch is changing the way it enforces its community guidelines.  In an announcement posted on its website …

The recent attempts on former President Trump’s life have left some House Republicans questioning whether the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) should remain under the control of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). "I think that's something that we should look at — if we need to remove them from Homeland, make them a standalone agency or answer to someone else. I mean, their mission, I think, is entirely different than a lot of the agencies under that Department of Homeland Security umbrella," Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., vice chair of the Committee on Homeland Security, told Fox News Digital. The Secret Service was established in 1865 as a bureau of the Treasury Department to tackle counterfeiting and was authorized by Congress to provide full-time protection to the president in 1913, according to the agency's website . It was transferred from the Treasury Department to the newly created DHS in 2003. The agency has faced a barrage of scrutiny after two assassina...

Iran envoy Robert Malley may have taken part in a "classified conference call" with the White House after his security clearance was suspended, according to the State Department inspector general’s new report.  The State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) did not interview Malley and could not confirm that he had been on the call, but his deputy notified a White House official that "Rob will call in" and that Malley had "accessed the controlled office where the call would have occurred."  At the time of the call, Malley’s clearance had been paused over misconduct allegations, but the envoy himself had not yet been notified. Malley – a controversial Washington figure who Republicans say is friendly to Iran – had been accused of storing classified information on his personal email account and phone.  ​​That material was later accessed by a "hostile cyber actor," according to Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, the Foreign Relations Committ...

Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple seeds iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 public betas with some Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and Siri redesign   —  Apple today released the first public betas of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, allowing non-developers to test the software ahead of its October launch.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : SocialAI, a new iOS app that looks like a social network, is filled entirely with bots and lets users populate their network with up to 32 types of bots   —  Are we at peak social media yet?  It's an interesting question to ponder after the launch of an iOS app offering a social media experience just for one.

A new Montana ruling on a third party's ballot presence could have negative implications for Sen. Jon Tester's re-election efforts as he clinches on to the Democrat's Senate majority , recent polling suggests.  In August, the Montana Democratic Party sued Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen and the state of Montana in an effort to prevent Green Party Senate candidate Robert Barb from appearing on the November ballot. Democrats claimed in their lawsuit that Barb's nomination was not valid, after the third-party candidate was named the Green Party's nominee to replace their original leading candidate who dropped out of the race in August despite winning the primary. A district court rejected the request to deny the Green Party candidate ballot access in early September, but the Montana Democratic Party submitted a writ of supervisory control to the state's Supreme Court against the lower court ruling. Ultimately, the Montana Supreme Court ruled to uphold the l...

FIRST ON FOX : A top House committee is doubling down on its efforts to get documents from the Biden administration about Vice President Kamala Harris’ role in what lawmakers call "the worst border crisis in American history." House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., wrote to acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Troy Miller following up on a request last month for documents and communications between Harris’ office and CBP. "It is important the Committee and the American people understand Vice President Harris’s role as the border czar in the ongoing border crisis," Comer said in the letter obtained by Fox News Digital. TOP HOUSE COMMITTEE DEMANDS INTERNAL DOCS ON HARRIS' ROLE IN BORDER CRISIS: ‘ABJECT FAILURE’   "The mass illegal entry and release of illegal aliens into the United States under the Biden-Harris Administration has contributed to murders, sexual assaults, and serious bodily injuries committed against nume...

Alex Heath / The Verge : Snap unveils new Spectacles it will lease to devs creating Snapchat AR lenses, with a more immersive display, longer battery life, and a more lightweight design   —  Will developers finally help Snap take AR glasses mainstream? … Snap's fifth-generation Spectacles have a richer, more immersive display.

Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Google's 20% ad transaction cut was a primary subject of its antitrust trial at the end of week one; the DOJ says it's a key sign of Google's online ad monopoly   —  For years, Google took the same 20 percent commission for ad transactions that ran through its platform, even though it was higher …

The race for Michigan's 7th Congressional District is generating national attention as Republicans attempt to tie their Democratic opponent to a controversial deal with a Chinese Communist Party-backed company. Michigan Republicans are calling on former Democratic State Sen. Curtis Hertel, who is currently running to represent Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, to break his silence on a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) he signed in order to obtain details on controversial plans to use taxpayer funds to help build an electric vehicle battery plant in west Michigan owned by a company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party . The plant, which was announced by Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in October 2022, was set to get millions in incentives as part of a deal with Michigan lawmakers and Green Charter Township, with promises of bringing over 2,000 jobs to the area. But the project quickly drew the ire of local voters, in large part due to the company behind the plan...

Annie Palmer / CNBC : Amazon CEO Andy Jassy tells employees to return to the office five days a week, citing the importance of the policy to the company's culture   —  - Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is instructing corporate staffers to work out of the office five days a week.  —  Amazon is instructing corporate staffers …

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said Vice President Harris is more focused on calling the residents of Springfield, Ohio, "racist" than "undoing her open border."  While making the rounds on CNN, NBC and CBS Sunday morning shows, Vance was confronted about recent controversy in Springfield , where residents have been pointing to an uptick in crime, mayhem and car crashes due to the massive influx of roughly 20,000 Haitian immigrants since the COVID-19 pandemic into a small town of approximately 58,000 people.   Residents at city council meetings have alleged that Haitians are killing and eating ducks and geese in parks, as well as pet cats and dogs, unverified allegations that Vance has referenced on social media and former President Trump repeated during the Philadelphia presidential debate last week.  "I trust my constituents more than I do the American media that has shown no interest in what's happened in Springfield unti...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer : The Port of Seattle says the Rhysida ransomware operation was behind an August 24 cyberattack and that it appears “some Port data was obtained by the actor”   —  Port of Seattle, the United States government agency overseeing Seattle's seaport and airport, confirmed on Friday …