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Wealthy Harris donors are reportedly pressing for ouster of FTC Chair Lina Khan

Some of Vice President Kamala Harris’ wealthier donors are informally asking for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be replaced, reports Bloomberg. It’s not really surprising: Her expansive definition of antitrust enforcement has countless industries frantic, and the largest corporations opposed her appointment from the start. Khan’s FTC, which has opposed mergers that would have been […]

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Acquiring AI talent wholesale | TechCrunch

Startups / Sasandara Dilmina

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. This week we are looking at acquisitions of small startups, two new unicorns, wearable AI devices, and VCs who are supporting Kamala Harris. Let’s get into it. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits: Bloomberg

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Over 100 VCs pledge support for Kamala Harris

Government & Policy / Sasandara Dilmina

More than 100 VCs, including Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla and Mark Cuban have pledged to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Mobilizing under the group VCsForKamala, the VCs are also soliciting donations for Harris’ campaign. But the organizers say the effort isn’t meant to align with any one political

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Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Apple signed the White House’s voluntary commitment to developing safe, secure and trustworthy AI, according to a press release on Friday. The company will soon launch its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, into its core products, putting generative AI in front of Apple’s 2 billion users. Apple joins 15 other technology companies — including Amazon,

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Where Kamala Harris stands on tech issues

Government & Policy / Sasandara Dilmina

This weekend, President Biden announced that he would suspend his campaign for president, and he endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris. We still don’t know if she will ultimately be the candidate that goes toe-to-toe with Donald Trump in November, but we do know that Silicon Valley has opinions. Like Trump’s VP pick J.D. Vance,

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CrowdStrike’s fallout, Harris’s stance on tech and Yandex’s rise from the ashes

Venture / Sasandara Dilmina

On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan did a deep dive into the CrowdStrike outage that affected around 8.5 million Windows devices around the world, causing disruptions in air travel, banking, hospitals, media outlets, federal agencies and businesses of all kinds. The outage began when CrowdStrike, a cloud security giant, sent out a defective software

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