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 (Zeba Siddiqui/Reuters)

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 »

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 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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 »

OpenSea plans to make creator fees optional for new collections from August 31, and enforce creator fees on certain existing collections through February 2024 (MK Manoylov/The Block)

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 »

Sources: Meta is preparing to release a free open-source code-generating AI model dubbed Code Llama as soon as next week (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

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 »

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 (Hayden Field/CNBC)

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 »

A group of crypto investors and developers loses its Coinbase-funded lawsuit arguing that the US Treasury overstepped its authority in sanctioning Tornado Cash (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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 »

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 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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 »

Internal document: Spotify weighed removing white noise podcasts and redirecting users to "talk" content that could boost Spotify's annual gross profit by €35M (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

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 »

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 as good PR" (Sara Ashley O'Brien/Wall Street Journal)

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 »

Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, a depth-sensing camera it released in 2019, in October 2023 (John Callaham/Neowin)

John Callaham / Neowin: Microsoft plans to discontinue Azure Kinect Developer Kit, a depth-sensing camera it released in 2019, in October 2023  —  Microsoft thought it had the next generation of technology... Read more »