Communities and governments should demand AI data center providers report how much energy they are wasting, rather than put blanket bans on the facilities, the CEO of chipmaker Onsemi told Semafor.
The Trump administration will lend $100 million to US-owned African telecoms firm Africell as Washington looks to displace Chinese companies as regional competition between the two superpowers heats up.
Turns out AI agents hate CAPTCHA, too. In Anthropic’s new cybersecurity report, the AI lab detailed an episode in which its Mythos 5 model was undergoing testing and gained unauthorized access to the internet. As part of its exploits, the model tried to register for an account on...
Disagreements over how far to go on AI safety legislation portend a rocky road ahead for bipartisan Senate talks on a bill that remains the most likely vehicle for action this year.
When researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week and claimed there’s a good chance the company’s work will lead to human extinction, the world reacted with fear and outrage about AI — but most of the backlash conflates several issues, including data centers’ environm...
A Chinese chip firm surged 180% in its stock-market debut, spotlighting the growing list of challengers to Nvidia’s dominance. Shanghai Enflame Technology’s IPO was 6,000 times oversubscribed, Nikkei reported, and its stock price surged despite declines across Asian markets.
Growing fears over AI’s threat to humanity have galvanized calls for regulation, though little consensus exists on how to best control the technology. Anthropic’s recent admission that “threat actors” used their models to try to develop bioweapons — after a researcher left the fi...
Top AI pioneers backed an Anthropic researcher’s warning of potential human extinction. Paul Christiano — author of an influential 2016 paper on AI safety with future Anthropic founder Dario Amodei and a longstanding believer that the technology would take off relatively graduall...
One lesson from the return of crude oil prices back above $100 per barrel is that US President Donald Trump seems to be hastening the end of the oil age.
California Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez faces increasing turbulence heading into his general election, according to new polling shared first with Semafor showing him statistically tied with Democrat Angela Gonzales-Torres.
Activist investor Oasis Capital Management has nominated a slate of directors at Vail Resorts and is preparing to launch a proxy fight, according to people familiar with the matter.
Pennsylvania Democrats, including potential 2028 Senate candidates, are ramping up their criticism of Sen. John Fetterman after he appeared by video at the Republican midterm convention this week.
A global bond sell-off pushed 10-year Treasury yields close to the significant 5% mark, approaching their highest level in almost two decades as the Iran War and US trade policies combined to stoke inflationary fears. The increase in Treasury yields triggered a sell-off of Asian ...
Anthropic said in a report that a UAE-linked influence operation used Claude AI to target the Muslim Brotherhood. The operation used around 300 fake social-media accounts, created a front NGO, ghost-wrote testimony to be used at the UN, and compiled files on European lawmakers, j...
On Sept. 10, Algiers severed diplomatic relations with the UAE and closed its airspace to Emirati aircraft, surprising few who had watched relations between the two countries deteriorate.
Nigerian healthcare investors are positioning to take advantage of untapped commercial opportunities in a sector that new research says will generate more than $50 billion in sales by the end of the decade.
Russia’s president landed in India for a BRICS summit that looks set to underline a broader reordering of global alliances. The talks in Delhi — also set to be attended by China’s leader — point to India’s attempt to balance ties with global powers: It has long sought to deepen r...
Hollywood’s dirty little secret is that filmmakers do like AI, and they use it to save money.