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In a letter to the Trump administration, the GOP Senatorial Committee Chair Sen. Tim Scott said the Netflix-WBD deal raises “significant antitrust problems” (www.semafor.com)
2 days ago Trump Netflix Republican

Singapore-based ChemLex raised a $45M funding round led by Granite Asia to build an AI-powered, automated chemistry lab to accelerate drug discovery (www.semafor.com)
2 days ago Asia AI Singapore

Internal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure (www.semafor.com)
4 days ago Google AI

Source: the US Department of Commerce plans to allow the export of Nvidia's old H200 chips to China, seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China (www.semafor.com)
7 days ago China Nvidia

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft plans to focus on superintelligence that prioritizes human control; he will lead a new superintelligence team (www.semafor.com)
2025-11-7 Microsoft AI

Google unveils Project Suncatcher to launch two solar-powered satellites, each with four TPUs, into low Earth orbit in 2027, as it seeks to scale AI compute (www.semafor.com)
2025-11-5 Google AI Solar

HP plans to build millions of computers in Saudi Arabia by 2030, primarily for export to MENA, as part of the kingdom's plans to boost manufacturing and exports (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-24 Arabia Manufacturing Saudi Arabia

Sources: Raymond Zage and James Lu, who control most of Grindr, are in talks to take it private after a Temasek unit sold shares pledged for personal loans (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-14

A profile of eBay CEO Jamie Iannone, who said the platform was “too complacent” in 2020 and now focuses on its power users, boosting its stock by ~50% in 2025 (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-13 eBay

Sources: when Trump criticized Lip-Bu Tan in August, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Michael Dell, and others spoke to Trump or his aides to vouch for Tan (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-8 Trump

Sources: Intel is in early-stage talks to add AMD as a foundry customer; Intel currently lacks the technology to produce AMD's most advanced, profitable chips (www.semafor.com)
2025-10-1 Intel AMD

How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses (www.semafor.com)
2025-9-25 Microsoft

Sources: Anthropic refused federal law enforcement requests to use its AI models for some tasks, such as the surveillance of US citizens, irking the White House (www.semafor.com)
2025-9-17 AI

How David Sacks emerged as a key advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, leveraging his tech expertise and All-In media presence (www.semafor.com)
2025-9-9 Trump AI

Source: G42 is talking to Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia (www.semafor.com)
2025-9-1 Google Microsoft AI Nvidia

Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview (www.semafor.com)
2025-8-29 Microsoft

Anthropic says it worked with the US National Nuclear Security Administration on a classifier to block concerning chats, like those on building nuclear reactors (www.semafor.com)
2025-8-22

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)
2025-7-31 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)
2025-7-17 Amazon AI

Airalo, which offers affordable eSIM roaming packages for travelers, raised $220M at a $1B+ valuation (www.semafor.com)
2025-7-11

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)
2025-7-6 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)
2025-7-6

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

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