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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...