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Sources: Trump administration is reconsidering plans to replace the Biden-era AI export rules as part of a broader softening on chip controls targeting China (www.semafor.com)
1 day ago Trump China AI

AWS rolls out Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, meant to help businesses create a network of AI agents that analyze internal data, write code, and take on other tasks (www.semafor.com)
16 days ago Amazon AI

Airalo, which offers affordable eSIM roaming packages for travelers, raised $220M at a $1B+ valuation (www.semafor.com)
21 days ago

An interview with Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost on settling the proxy fight with Starboard Value, serving the “design and make” workforce, US reshoring, and more (www.semafor.com)
26 days ago Interview

A look at Meta's recent hires for its nascent superintelligence unit, including Pei Sun, who developed two generations of Waymo's perception models (www.semafor.com)
27 days ago

Anthropic launches the Anthropic Economic Futures Program to bolster research on the impacts of AI and encourage new proposals on how to mitigate the downsides (www.semafor.com)
2025-6-28 AI

Sources: Reddit is exploring Tools for Humanity's World ID identity system to allow users to verify that they are unique individuals while remaining anonymous (www.semafor.com)
2025-6-21 Reddit

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (www.semafor.com)
2025-6-14

Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development (www.semafor.com)
2025-6-12 Google AI

A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-31 AI

Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-31 AI

African e-commerce giant Jumia says it is ramping up the number of China-based merchants on its platform, as it faces competition from Temu and Shein (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-28 China Africa

Sources: Neuralink raised $600M at a $9B pre-money valuation; PitchBook: the company was valued at $3.5B in late 2023 (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-28

Meta releases the Open Molecules 2025 dataset and the Universal Model for Atoms family of models to accelerate the development of new drugs and materials (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-15

Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-backed AI company HUMAIN has selected US-based chip developer Groq for its inference work (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-14 AI Arabia Saudi Arabia

Sources: the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for “countries of concern” (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-10 AI

Zeki: the US risks losing its edge as the top destination for AI talent, as the 12-month rolling average of AI talent entering in 2025 equals the number leaving (www.semafor.com)
2025-5-5 AI

A look at the sprawling network of group chats that began in 2020 as a place for SV leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a central role (www.semafor.com)
2025-4-28

Source: FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Assistant AG Gail Slater, and activist Mike Davis met Trump on April 8 to combat Meta's lobbying over the FTC antitrust case (www.semafor.com)
2025-4-15 Trump

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)
2025-4-3 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)
2025-3-24 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)
2025-3-23 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)
2025-3-21 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)
2025-3-17 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

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