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Articles from www.semafor.com

Sources: TikTok's Internal Audit team that spied on journalists had wide investigative powers with little oversight; ByteDance says it's restructuring the team (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-12

Google has started requiring local regulatory approval for loan apps in Nigeria and Kenya, after imposing similar rules in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-7 India Google Indonesia Philippines Nigeria

A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of Trump but writes one about Biden; sources: OpenAI doesn't know why (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-5 Trump

Starlink's Africa debut runs into a familiar Nigeria problem | (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-4 Africa Nigeria

In Uganda, the president's son is getting ready to run | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-2 Uganda

Sources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app (www.semafor.com)
2023-2-2 Microsoft

OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-28

Live Nation President Joe Berchtold to Congress: during the Taylor Swift presale, Ticketmaster struggled with a bot onslaught that also impacted Verified Fan (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-25

South Africa's ANC mulls selling real estate to plug holes in its finances | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-20 Africa South Africa

How Nigeria's election could be won in London | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-19 Nigeria London

Rwanda faces fresh scrutiny from U.S. Congress | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-14 U.S.

Sources: Tiger Global struggles to raise its latest fund after investors learned it secretly paid a senior female staffer $10M to settle allegations of bullying (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-13

Sources: Coinbase's internal “sentiment” tracker for media coverage showed Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX was consistently viewed more favorably until its collapse (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-12 Coinbase

Sources: Microsoft is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $29B valuation as part of a deal to get 75% of OpenAI's profits until it recoups its investment (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-10 Microsoft

African countries barred from foreign borrowing risk explosive domestic debt | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-10 Africa

How Nigeria's election could be won in London | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-6 Nigeria London

A mysterious cyberattack has shuttered the Guardian's office for a month (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-5

Rwanda faces fresh scrutiny from U.S. Congress | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2023-1-2

Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter (www.semafor.com)
2022-12-17 Twitter Elon Musk

Goldman Sachs to lay off up to 4,000 people | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
2022-12-17 Goldman

Sources: in January 2018, Alameda took loans worth $116M from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and philanthropist Luke Ding, both backers of “effective altruism” (www.semafor.com)
2022-12-8 Skype

TIME's person of the year is Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the spirit of Ukraine (www.semafor.com)
2022-12-8 Ukraine

Despite Elon Musk publicly distancing himself from SBF, texts between them on May 5 show SBF rolled over $100M in Twitter stock during Musk's takeover (www.semafor.com)
2022-11-23 Twitter Elon Musk

Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried and most of his inner circle are still in the Bahamas but many senior FTX executives left for Hong Kong and elsewhere in recent days (www.semafor.com)
2022-11-13 Hong Kong

TikTok has quietly launched its livestreaming e-commerce feature TikTok Shop in the US this week; source: TikTok has invited select US businesses to participate (www.semafor.com)
2022-11-12

Backlash after German politician who doesn't own a car appointed to powerful seat on VW board (www.semafor.com)
2022-11-11 Germany

A Birdwatch note adding context to Elon Musk's tweet about Twitter's revenue drop is gone; Musk called the community notes feature “awesome” earlier this week (www.semafor.com)
2022-11-5 Twitter Elon Musk

A profile of Twitter's global head of safety and integrity Yoel Roth, who has become one of few executives to gain Elon Musk's public support after his takeover (www.semafor.com)
2022-11-5 Twitter Elon Musk

Sources: Andreessen Horowitz is the investor behind Android founder Andy Rubin's new hardware startup Smart Things (www.semafor.com)
2022-10-29 Android Startup

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