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Former President Trump's campaign confirmed to Fox News on Saturday that some of its internal communications were hacked.  Liberal media outlet Politico had reached out to the campaign after the news outlet started receiving internal Trump documents.  "These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process," said Steven Cheung, communications director for the Trump campaign. "On Friday, a new report from Microsoft found that Iranian hackers broke into the account of a ‘high ranking official’ on the U.S. presidential campaign in June 2024, which coincides with the close timing of President Trump’s selection of a Vice Presidential nominee," he added.  Cheung noted that the hack allegedly by Iran came, "after recent reports of an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump around the same time as the Butler, PA tragedy." He...

Alex Isenstadt / Politico : Trump campaign says some of its internal communications were hacked, citing a Microsoft report that Iranian hackers “sent a spear phishing email” to a campaign   —  The campaign suggested Iran was to blame.  POLITICO has not independently verified the identity of the hacker or their motivation.

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : Just two of OpenAI's 11-strong founding team are active at OpenAI, after a series of exits in 2024 following the attempted boardroom coup against Sam Altman   —  It's probably time to change that non-profit structure for good...  In late 2015, the blog post announcing OpenAI to the world was short and sweet.

Kaya Yurieff / The Information : TikTok is offering steep discounts on goods to US users who invite friends to the app, expanding a referral scheme from countries like Japan and Thailand   —  TikTok is testing a truism: Money talks.  —  TikTok users in the U.S. who invite their friends to the app can now get steep discounts on goods …

Controversy over Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s military service record is at the heart of Capitol Hill’s latest political firestorm, with veterans on both sides of the aisle chiming in on the new Democratic vice presidential candidate. Republicans are accusing Walz of misrepresenting details about his 24-year career in the National Guard — GOP lawmakers who served in the military have attacked him for leaving the National Guard to run for Congress shortly before his unit deployed to Iraq. Democratic veterans in Congress jumped to his defense, pointing out that Walz served past his 20-year retirement eligibility mark and dismissing the GOP attacks as baseless. "The veterans' community is incensed right now that Tim Walz refuses to answer questions about his military record," Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., the first former Green Beret elected to Congress, told Fox News Digital. "[He] has misled voters about his military rank, and it appears he abandoned his men prior to thei...

Financial Times : Since the OpenAI board dispute, Microsoft diversified AI investments and partnerships, built its own models, and hired aggressively for its consumer AI efforts   —  The tech giant has worked to execute an AI strategy independent of Sam Altman's start-up following a leadership crisis last year

Former President Trump said President Biden had "the right to run" for re-election and the Democratic Party "took it away" from him, while blasting his new opponent Kamala Harris as the "least admired, least respected, and worst vice president in the history of our country."  Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago Thursday afternoon after holding off-the-record meetings with major media outlets. The Trump campaign said the Republican presidential nominee wanted to address the media "while they were already in Palm Beach because he’s the most transparent candidate in history."  Trump said Thursday that the U.S. is in "the most dangerous period of time I’ve ever seen for our country."  "We have somebody that hasn’t received one vote for president, and she’s running, and that’s fine with me, but we were given Joe Biden, and now we’re given somebody else," Trump said. "I think, frankly, I’d rather be running against...