Beijing-Backed Trolls Target U.S. Voters as Election Nears (MSN paywall-free link)

• “One of the world’s largest covert online influence operations, an operation run by Chinese state-linked actors, has become more aggressive in its efforts to infiltrate and sway U.S. political conversations ahead of the election,” said Jack Stubbs, chief intelligence officer at the research firm Graphika, which published the report Tuesday on Spamouflage’s alleged activities.

Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests

• The indictment states the company described itself on its website as “a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues.” Tennessee-based company Tenet Media has the same message on its homepage. The indictment states the Tennessee-based company was incorporated around Jan. 19, 2022, which matches records from the Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office. The indictment says the company applied to the Tennessee Department of State to conduct business on May 22, 2023.

SBIRs

• Need to send an email to here. the email has to go out very soon, and a response needs to come back ASAP. Need to integrate the PMs interests, the Capstone goals, and an overarching LLMs as underutilized latent knowledge systems. Once that’s done, see if we go direct to proposal regardless. Need to look through what’s required. Written. Need to get approval/edits
• 10:30 Trade show demo planning? Yup. Fun!
• Meeting with Aaron about prompt swarms?