Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: Mandiant: the use of AI to conduct politically-motivated online influence campaigns has grown in recent years, but the impact of such campaigns has been limited  —  Google-owned U.S.... Read more »

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: ProjectDiscovery, a free vulnerability scanning platform to monitor for exploits in websites, apps, APIs, and cloud services, raised a $25M Series A led by CRV  —  ProjectDiscovery, a... Read more »

MK Manoylov / The Block: OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31, and enforce creator fees on certain existing collections through February 2024  —  – OpenSea... Read more »

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: Sources: Meta is preparing to release a free open-source code-generating AI model dubbed Code Llama as soon as next week  —  Meta Platforms is preparing to launch... Read more »

Hayden Field / CNBC: Filing: NYC-based AI startup Elemental Cognition raised nearly $60M; AI researcher David Ferrucci, who led the team behind IBM Watson, founded Elemental in 2015  —  – David Ferrucci,... Read more »

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A group of crypto investors and developers loses its Coinbase-funded lawsuit arguing that the US Treasury overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash  —  The group of developers... Read more »

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Arthur launches Arthur Bench, an open-source tool for comparing the performance of LLMs, like OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo and Meta’s Llama 2, for specific use cases  —  New York... Read more »

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal document: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to “talk” content that could boost Spotify’s annual gross profit by €35M  —  An internal document shows... Read more »

Sara Ashley O’Brien / Wall Street Journal: Nonprofit Garbo plans to drop its background checking tool used by Match Group’s apps on August 31, saying most tech companies “see trust and safety... Read more »