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Google replaces Sissie Hsiao, leader of its consumer AI apps, including Gemini, with Josh Woodward, who leads Google Labs and oversaw NotebookLM's launch (www.semafor.com)
5 hours ago Google AI

An off-Broadway theater in New York is offering AI-powered live translations in 60 languages to attract new audiences, using AI tech from startup Worldly (www.semafor.com)
9 days ago Startup AI New York

An interview with Affirm co-founder Max Levchin on hitting profitability, international expansion, building an “Affirm mafia”, DOGE, friendship with Musk, more (www.semafor.com)
11 days ago Interview

Sources: Microsoft chose not to exercise a ~$12B option to buy more data center capacity from CoreWeave; OpenAI snapped up the contract on March 10 (www.semafor.com)
13 days ago Microsoft

CoreWeave's upcoming IPO in a soft IPO market serves as a bellwether for both the tech industry and how the public market perceives AI in the years ahead (www.semafor.com)
17 days ago IPO AI

Docs: the NYT greenlights the use of select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft (www.semafor.com)
2025-2-17 Google Amazon Microsoft AI

Adam Candeub, a Big Tech critic and architect of Trump's first term effort to revoke Section 230 protections for social media, will be the FCC's general counsel (www.semafor.com)
2025-2-4 Trump

The US could encourage future DeepSeeks to happen inside the US by funding the NAIRR, a pilot project providing compute power to university-level researchers (www.semafor.com)
2025-1-29

An interview with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, who says the company's revenue grew 5x over the past six months after releasing a new AI coding tool called Agent (www.semafor.com)
2025-1-17 Interview AI

Sources: Satya Nadella and Brad Smith had lunch with Trump, Vance, and Musk at Mar-a-Lago on January 15; Microsoft says its two execs had a “Productive meeting” (www.semafor.com)
2025-1-16 Trump Microsoft

Sources: Meta is overhauling its global policy team, replacing President Nick Clegg with Joel Kaplan, his deputy and the company's most prominent Republican (www.semafor.com)
2025-1-3 Republican

An interview with Sundar Pichai about Google joining a “Manhattan Project” for AI under Trump, playing the long game after ChatGPT launch, Gemini 2.0, and more (www.semafor.com)
2024-12-14 Trump Google Interview AI

Q&A with Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas on how AI has changed the $30B company, which offers sensors, cameras, and software for managing vehicle fleets and equipment (www.semafor.com)
2024-12-7 AI

Q&A with Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora about the role of the tech industry in Trump's administration, AI, the future of cybersecurity, and more (www.semafor.com)
2024-11-21 Trump AI

BSA, representing OpenAI, Microsoft, and others, urges Trump to review rules that are “unnecessarily impeding AI adoption” but to keep some of Biden's moves (www.semafor.com)
2024-11-15 Trump Microsoft AI

In a lawsuit, the US FTC accuses fintech startup Dave of misleading struggling borrowers about its cash advances' terms, charging undisclosed fees, and more (www.semafor.com)
2024-11-6 Fintech Startup

Substack, which still isn't profitable but has added +1M paid subscribers over the last year, is trying to become a primary way creators of all mediums get paid (www.semafor.com)
2024-10-7

Kamala Harris is courting crypto investors and pro-crypto Democrats, as some prominent Democrats temper their initial skepticism of crypto assets (www.semafor.com)
2024-9-27 Democrat Asset

Some former CrowdStrike employees say they raised concerns about executives rushing deadlines and quality checks, more than a year before the July 2024 outage (www.semafor.com)
2024-9-14

Once hesitant to openly comment about politics, German tech leaders publicly voice their opposition to the far-right AfD ahead of Sunday's state elections (www.semafor.com)
2024-8-30 Germany Far-right

Starlink faces regulatory obstacles in Africa, as countries worry about losing control over content and the company providing services without paying taxes (www.semafor.com)
2024-7-21 Tax Africa

How Kenya's anti-government protestors are using AI tools, including the Corrupt Politicians GPT, a chatbot that reveals corruption cases involving politicians (www.semafor.com)
2024-7-6 AI chatbot

Sources: Mustafa Suleyman's presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with OpenAI, as he looks at the algorithms behind models like GPT-4 (www.semafor.com)
2024-6-15 Microsoft Algorithm

AI search engine Perplexity says it was working on revenue-sharing deals with publishers when Forbes criticized it for misusing content from Forbes and others (www.semafor.com)
2024-6-13 AI

Many outlets have increased reliance on Apple News+; The Daily Beast is set to make $3M-4M from it in 2024, and Time says it delivers 7-figure annual revenue (www.semafor.com)
2024-5-20 Apple

Google DeepMind releases its Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for analyzing and mitigating future risks posed by advanced AI models (www.semafor.com)
2024-5-18 Google AI

Billionaire tech critic Frank McCourt says he is preparing a “people's bid” for TikTok to buy and rebuild the app as “a new and better version of the internet” (www.semafor.com)
2024-5-16

Q&A with Linda Moore, the CEO of TechNet, which represents OpenAI, Apple, and others, about the 400+ AI bills proposed across the US, tech backlash, and more (www.semafor.com)
2024-5-12 AI Apple

Q&A with Marissa Mayer about her app development startup Sunshine, its new photo-sharing app Shine, the AI landscape, internet business models, and more (www.semafor.com)
2024-4-6 Startup AI

Replit launches Code Repair, an AI agent to automatically fix coding errors, and Teams, which allows developers to collaborate in real time on software projects (www.semafor.com)
2024-4-3 AI

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