Articles from www.semafor.com

Articles from www.semafor.com

South Africa's president seeks positives after leading failed Ukraine-Russia African peace mission | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-6-21 Russia Ukraine Africa South Africa

Kenya's tea pickers are destroying the machines replacing them (www.semafor.com)
2023-6-14

China rejects nuclear talks with the U.S. as it looks to strengthen its own arsenal (www.semafor.com)
2023-6-10 China U.S.

Iran is using the world's largest lake to evade the U.S. and ship weapons to Russia (www.semafor.com)
2023-6-7 Russia U.S. Iran

South Africa eyes virtual BRICS summit to dodge Putin arrest warrant | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-6-7 Putin Africa South Africa

A deep fake video of Putin declaring martial law was broadcast on TVs and radios in some Russian cities on Ukraine's border; Russia says it was due to a “hack” (www.semafor.com)
2023-6-6 Russia Ukraine

Why OpenAI's Sam Altman was just in Lagos | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-5-25

A South African company delivered arms to Russians, government probe suggests | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-5-24 Africa South Africa

After FiscalNote, which provides data to lobbyists, said it would use ChatGPT, OpenAI told the company that ChatGPT could be used only for grassroots campaigns (www.semafor.com)
2023-5-18

Zimbabwe's gold-backed digital token runs into political headwinds | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-5-10 Zimbabwe

Botswana wants to disrupt the global diamond trade | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-5-9

An interview with Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on investing $100M+ in 100+ AI startups and why he thinks he failed to steer AI development toward human safety (www.semafor.com)
2023-4-30 Interview Startup AI Skype

Replit, which offers AI-powered collaborative coding tools, raised $97.4M at a $1.2B valuation and says it has 22.5M users, up from 10M+ in Dec. 2021 (www.semafor.com)
2023-4-26 AI

With Facebook's pivot away from news and Twitter's decay, media outlets return to digital media's foundational concepts of the early 2000s like homepage traffic (www.semafor.com)
2023-4-25 Facebook Twitter

Spotify plans to drop its paywall on some of Gimlet's podcasts and change its exclusivity rules in the coming months; Spotify acquired Gimlet for $230M in 2019 (www.semafor.com)
2023-4-18 Spotify

Before meeting with Elon Musk, top advertisers privately debate his “racist rhetoric”: Musk has been desperate to increase revenue on the platform, but many publishers aren't eager to go along with his plan to make them pay. (www.semafor.com)
2023-4-8 Elon Musk Racism

Sources: Stability AI looks to bring in a Sheryl Sandberg-like exec after burning through a big chunk of $100M raised in 2022 without generating much revenue (www.semafor.com)
2023-4-8 AI

Tests show that Twitter's “stay informed” labels, implemented in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia or China-controlled sites, no longer appear (www.semafor.com)
2023-4-6 Russia China Twitter

An interview with Vinod Khosla on how AI will “free humanity from the need to work”, seeing the AI future early, OpenAI investment, AI and geopolitics, and more (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-30 Interview AI

Russia's predicted economic decline in three charts (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-30 Russia

OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-28

Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store's top finance apps in Nigeria on March 24, after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-28 China Central Bank Nigeria

The secret history of Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-26 Elon Musk

Can journalists teach AI to tell the truth? (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-13 AI

Sources: some hedge funds are offering to buy startups' deposits at SVB for 60 to 80 cents on the dollar; Filing: ~96% of deposits as of Dec. 31 were uninsured (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-12 Startup

Ukraine is turning down hundreds of Afghan soldiers who want to join its war effort (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-10 Ukraine

Gulf states and Israel are secretly lobbying Russia not to arm Iran (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-6 Russia Israel Iran

Canada allows two companies to make and sell cocaine, MDMA, and heroin (www.semafor.com)
2023-3-6

A decades-long ethnic conflict in Ghana is at risk of escalation from foreign fighters | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-18

How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-13 Spotify

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