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…
DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis said in a Semafor interview that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will arrive in two to five years, not decades, and that bio and nuclear risks from AI will fol…
The U.S. Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, restoring access for over 100 U.S. organizations. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick determined…
The Trump administration has reportedly approached SpaceX about donating company stock to Trump Accounts, a new children's savings program, but current Treasury guidelines prohibit stock donations. Ov…
Ancestry has deployed machine learning to accelerate its record digitization pipeline from nine months to under nine days, with its corpus now exceeding 71 billion records. The company adds about 10 m…
Project 2029, a liberal group creating a Democratic policy roadmap for the 2028 election, proposed banning social media for children under 16 and regulating AI chatbots. The 'Kids Over Clicks' plan, s…
The US government suspended access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12 under an export control directive, citing national security concerns. Anthropic disabled the models for all …
The US government has allowed Anthropic to release its Mythos 5 AI model to approximately 100 trusted US companies and federal agencies, reversing previous restrictions over national security concerns…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SVP Nick Fox confirmed that Google Search is evolving into an agent manager, where information-seeking queries become agentic and tasks are completed within Search. Fox st…
Stanford AI Index 2026 data shows China narrowed the U.S. AI performance lead to 2.7 percentage points while investing 23 times less in private capital, intensifying U.S. policy debates over export co…
Anthropic received US government permission to redeploy its Mythos 5 cybersecurity AI model to over 100 US organizations, including major corporations and government agencies, after suspending access …
The Trump administration has allowed Anthropic to redeploy its powerful cybersecurity model Mythos 5 to over 100 US government agencies and companies, including non-American employees, after a two-wee…
The US Commerce Department partially lifted an export control directive, allowing Anthropic to release its Claude Mythos 5 model to over 100 US institutions. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick determin…