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Mark Cuban hails Tim Walz after Harris makes VP pick |
The tech billionaire and TV personality said the Minnesota governor is a breath of fresh air compared to other politicians. |
The entrepreneur and reality TV panelist complimented Walz in a social media post Tuesday for his relatability as Silicon Valley bigwigs draw lines in the sand over the November election. "People are tired of the ideologues and hate from both parties. They want to vote for normal people they can relate to. Walz can sit at the kitchen table and make you feel like you have [known] him forever," he wrote online Tuesday morning.
Cuban downplayed Walz's lack of celebrity, drawing comparisons to Harris as her star rose in recent weeks within the Democratic party. Other big names in tech have recently gotten behind the Harris ticket.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and more than 100 venture capitalists backed Harris in late July as reports swirled that former President Trump was making progress wooing Silicon Valley investors.
Trump has secured the loyalties of several major figures and former Democratic donors in the tech world, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, venture capitalist Shaun Maguire and tech adviser Jacob Helberg. The Hill's Tobias Burns has the full story here. |
Welcome to The Hill's Technology newsletter, we're Julia Shapero and Sylvan Lane — tracking the latest moves from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley. |
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Elon Musk's X sued a coalition of advertisers leading a boycott against the social platform, accusing the group of conspiring to "collectively withhold billions of dollars in advertising revenue." The suit takes aim at the World Federation of Advertisers and its initiative called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), which led a boycott against the platform formerly known as Twitter after it was acquired by Musk … |
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The social platform X will close its San Francisco office and move workers elsewhere in the Bay Area, it announced internally Monday, according to The New York Times. Employees will move to company offices in Palo Alto and San Jose, CEO Linda Yaccarino said in the memo. The Palo Alto office already has staff from xAI, another Elon Musk-owned firm. "This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the right … |
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Online calls for violence, particularly a modern-day civil war, skyrocketed following the attempted assassination of former President Trump, domestic extremism experts said Tuesday. Moonshot, a research company that monitors online extremism, said it tracked 1,599 calls for a civil war — a 633 percent increase from a normal day — the day after the July 13 shooting in Pennsylvania, which killed one Trump rallygoer and injured … |
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Google phases out Chromecast |
The major tech company is unveiling Google TV Streamer, which is larger and designed to sit on top of an entertainment console, according to TechCrunch. |
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Rivian beats earnings expectations |
The electric vehicle maker is still losing thousands of dollars per completed unit but surprised Wall Street analysts, according to CNBC. |
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Russian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif debate to undermine the Olympics |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The actor in the viral music video denouncing the 2024 Olympics looks a lot like French President Emmanuel Macron. The images of rats, trash and the sewage, however, were dreamed up by artificial intelligence. Portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool, the video mocking the Games … |
Markets on Wall Street and in Asia are stabilizing Tuesday following a mini-panic caused by an assortment of factors that stretched from late last week through Monday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq each rose 1.3% in morning trading and were on track to break a brutal three-day losing streak. The S&P … |
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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Vice President Harris has chosen Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to be her running mate as she heads toward a November faceoff against former President … Read more |
| A presidential race that at one point seemed like it was becoming former President Trump's to lose increasingly looks like a toss-up as Vice President … Read more |
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