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Ivanka Trump is in the heart of Silicon Valley tonight — in Atherton, California — to raise money for her father’s presidential campaign.

Here’s the invite. Tickets range from $2,800 to $50,000.
Believe this is the first major Silicon Valley event featuring a member of the Trump family since Donald Trump himself came to raise money here last September.
one week ago
Trump has torqued up his anti-Silicon Valley rhetoric in the final weeks of the campaign.

But at the end of the day — when running low on cash and in need of every dollar — Team Trump is coming back to the Silicon Valley ATM.

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Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, was asked today in an interview about whether regulation was the answer for our issues with AI.

His answer about regulating tech companies is...worth reading.
Eric Schmidt's point about how hard it is to specifically write regulations around specific practices is well-put.

But is the best alternative really to only regulate tech companies "as bad things happen"?
Eric Schmidt was also asked about breaking up Big Tech companies.

In response, he pointed to the proposal from @ewarren to break up Apple, which he said was a bad idea.
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Just in: @Princeton announces that Wilson College — named after Woodrow Wilson — will immediately be renamed First College due to Wilson’s racism.

New letter from Princeton president Chris Eisgruber.
And more significantly — Princeton’s Wilson School, the public policy program, is also being renamed.

The Woodrow Wilson School is now the “Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.”
More from Princeton president Chris Eisgruber:

“Princeton honored Wilson not because of, but without regard to or perhaps even in ignorance of, his racism.

That, however, is ultimately the problem.”
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26 Jun
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Last week, one of Mark Zuckerberg’s engineers asked him to resign as Facebook CEO.

But the engineer didn't even work for Facebook. They work for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his philanthropy.

We go deep on the unrest at Zuckerberg’s charity.

vox.com/recode/2020/6/…
One of Mark Zuckerberg's employees gives him three choices in an extraordinary moment:

1. Resign as CEO of Facebook
2. Resign as CEO of CZI
3. Moderate Trump's content

That's when Zuckerberg flipped the tables.

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We've got a bunch of scoops in this piece about how Facebook affects the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Will share a couple.

For starters, the Cambridge Analytica scandal ended up temporarily killing a political data startup that CZI acquired called Deck.

vox.com/recode/2020/6/…
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12 Jun
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Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan have responded to the 270+ scientists at the @ChanZuckerberg Initiative who called on Zuckerberg to curb misinformation.

Zuckerberg says he and Chan are "deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump’s
divisive and incendiary rhetoric."
@ChanZuckerberg The full quote in the letter is sharper than the rhetoric I've seen from Mark Zuckerberg to date:

"And personally, like you, we are deeply shaken and disgusted by President Trump’s divisive and incendiary rhetoric at a time when our nation so desperately needs unity."
@ChanZuckerberg More from Zuckerberg and Chan:

"Although CZI & Facebook are entirely separate and independent
organizations with different missions and teams, we do share the same co-leader. And in this moment, we understand that CZI’s relationship to Facebook is not an easy tension to bridge."
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27 May
NEW —

Tech billionaires are plotting sweeping, secret plans to boost Joe Biden.

We go inside the worlds of Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt, Laurene Powell Jobs and Dustin Moskovitz, who are spending their millions to oust Trump.

Exclusive details here —>

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Reid Hoffman could spend $100 million this cycle.

He was a special guest of Biden's campaign on a call last week. His message to Silicon Valley's product minds?

“We don’t need you to go and build anything new,“ Hoffman said. "There’s no time for that.”

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Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is heavily funding a secretive group called STAC Labs that is working with Democratic state parties to help them model their data.

This is Eric Schmidt's 2020 strategy.

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25 Mar
New: The email in Silicon Valley that offered expedited coronavirus testing — due to a "unique relationship" — came from DCVC, a VC firm.

They published it publicly after I contacted them late last night for comment.

I've been working on a story today — stand by for more.
I'll share the email copy for now.

Been speaking with DCVC, Carbon Health and bioethicists throughout the day.
Worth reminding PR folks that when you publish something pre-emeptively after a reporter asks you for comment, it incentivizes them to give you as little time for a comment in the future.

Which isn't in anyone's interest.

The PR pro's know this and that's why they don't do it.
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