Temu -- China's online shopping app, rapidly growing in the US -- sells loads of Biden and Trump items.

But if you search for those words, among many other terms, like 'president,' 'election,' Temu returns zero results.

My latest for @forbes:

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New from me: over 30 TikTok employees have been interrogated at the border about the company's data access flows, data centers, Project Texas — and whether they're members of the CCP.

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Sublime, which monitors emails of companies and political campaigns to spot AI-generated phishing attacks, raised a $20M Series A, taking total funding to $30M (Thomas Brewster / Forbes)

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“My philosophy has always been to let 1,000 flowers bloom... we want this opportunity for everybody.'

Just updated our @forbes story on the success of the 'IIT Mafia' with comment from Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha, tuning in from NYSE 🏛 on the day of its IPO.
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The Biden admin says it wants a divestment of TikTok, not a ban. But here's why separating TikTok from ByteDance may be all but impossible.

Plus: What TikTok leadership has been telling employees over the last few days.

New in Forbes with Emily Baker-White: forbes.com/sites/alexandr…

Please, no, not TikTik!

I'm alvays TikTiking!

NEW - Phishing is increasingly reliant on ChatGPT and similar LLMs to trick victims, says Sublime Security CEO Josh Kamdjou.

The former DOD hacker is today announcing a $20m raise and a major political campaign as a customer, pitching his AI against attackers'.
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Is it me, or should this breach of a major American intelligence, law enforcement and military contractor be a bigger deal? mitre.org/news-insights/…

Mitre gets billions from fed agencies to research wild stuff like this: forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

It's hugely influential.

Years ago, FB, IG, YT, and TW, announced they would label posts by state media, so people would know if they were reading government propaganda. TikTok then followed.

Today, YouTube is the only one doing it in the Middle East, where there is a war.

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Axon, the company that makes Tasers, is releasing an AI tool built on GPT-4 that generates police reports from body cam audio. One critic we spoke to: “It’s kind of a nightmare…What could go wrong?”

With Thomas Brewster

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And, yeah, it's based on ChatGPT models.

NEW - AI is now writing up police reports, via multi-billion dollar cop contractor and Taser maker Axon.

What could go wrong?

w/ Richard Nieva

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Another awful example of Life360 being used to sex traffick a minor. It keeps happening.

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First Google and now Instagram having their platforms moderated by reporters forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…

Mullets, Nyn, god, drones and Andreessen Horowitz are fueling a defense tech revival called the 'Gundo.'

Down in El Segundo, a movement of young (mostly male) founders are trying to make it cool to build hardware for the battlefield.

w/ David Jeans
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Sarah Emerson is one of the best tech culture reporters out there. Amazing to see the $100bn capital response to Google workers refusing to build AI for the DoD. This article is an incredible look inside the culture VCs are funding to create mini sycophants.

NEW: They pump iron, chew nicotine and build weapons. Beloved by a16z investors and inspired by Palmer Luckey, they call themselves the Gundo bros, 'unapologetic' Americans building defense tech companies in LA.

w/ sarah emerson

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A Court Watch scoop — authorities have arrested a North Carolina woman in Utah for alleging laundering 92 million dollars in drug money for cartels through a Chinese money laundering operation.

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Happy (almost) 420, folks. Read about what I'm calling the 'Cannabis Civil War,' the fight between marijuana and hemp companies that has engulfed the industry and politics surrounding cannabis legalization. Forbes forbes.com/sites/willyako…

Joe Biden's net worth is roughly equal to the value of the St. Martin house Trump has been trying to sell!! Zach Everson via @forbes forbes.com/sites/zachever…