President Donald Trump is considering moving Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent into the role of AI Czar, according to an anonymously sourced Semafor report citing three sources familiar with the matter…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is emerging as a leading candidate for President Donald Trump's planned AI czar position, according to three people familiar with the matter cited by Semafor. No appoi…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reported that a human attacker used AI agents to breach an unnamed European IT and software company in under 10 hours during summer 2026, an operation Unit 42 estimated wou…
The U.S. Commerce Department ordered prediction market Kalshi last month to take down its AI compute forward curves, citing national security concerns, according to a Semafor report published Tuesday.…
AI researcher Andrew Tulloch has left Meta, according to a Semafor report, departing the day after Meta released Muse, an agentic AI platform with coding and computer use capabilities. Tulloch, who wo…
Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving the company days after Meta unveiled Muse, its new family of open source AI models and assistant, according to Semafor, which cited a person briefed on the…
YouTube terminated 20 channels, including all 13 referenced in a Semafor investigation, for violating its spam policies against AI-supercharged 'ghost creators' that produced sensationalized political…
A new Semafor analysis by politics reporter David Weigel finds that anti-data center sentiment has become a major election issue, with two-thirds to three-quarters of Americans opposing data centers i…
Meta has disabled the cameras on thousands of its AI glasses after detecting tampering with the recording indicator lights, affecting less than 0.1% of all Meta AI glasses sold. The company's newest s…
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, announced in a blog post and media interviews that he is the first person to publicly express alarm about the societal impacts of artificial intelligence, warning …
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, warned in a 6,000-word essay that the rapid development of AI could enable the creation of bioweapons, bombs, and computer viruses, and could eliminate jobs across…
Bill Gates has reversed his stance on AI's impact on jobs, now warning that the technology will cause economic catastrophe with 'far fewer' jobs than exist today, citing the speed of advancements and …
Republicans who have supported the AI boom are shifting to a middle-ground stance on data centers, calling for 'guardrails' and tax-break rollbacks instead of moratoriums, as populist pushback grows, …
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings said on Semafor's 'The CEO Signal' podcast that CEOs may soon face a choice to cut their workforce in half or expand their reach as generative AI improves, predicting f…
CME Group is launching AI compute futures, allowing computing power to be traded like a commodity, a move that raises questions about Wall Street's enthusiasm for AI. The announcement was discussed by…
The White House plans to bring powerful open AI models into its prerelease security review framework, reversing an exemption outlined to developers earlier this month, according to a White House offic…
The White House is not commenting on whether it will publicly release its framework for voluntary reviews of advanced AI models, which it plans to brief companies on later today. AI firms including An…
A blog post criticizes recent analyses of the AI bubble, particularly a Semafor article by Elizabeth Hoffman and a Talking Points Memo piece by Josh Marshall, for misrepresenting the relationships bet…
California Democrats Sen. Adam Schiff, Rep. Ro Khanna, and Rep. Mark Takano introduced two bills this week to regulate AI-generated political ads and paid influencer posts. The AI Ads Act would ban fr…
Elon Musk's brain chip startup Neuralink is being valued as high as $42 billion in secondary market transactions, a nearly fivefold increase from its $9 billion valuation in its last funding round las…