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Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation (www.semafor.com)
8 hours ago Slack

Meta says it is letting go of employees it hired from AI safety startup Virtue AI four months after they joined the company, citing clashing work styles (www.semafor.com)
12 hours ago Startup AI

Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped build support (www.semafor.com)
2 days ago Trump AI Zuckerberg

The US stood alone in dismissing AI safety concerns at the UN, leaving nations to set nonbinding rules without buy-in from the home of the biggest AI companies (www.semafor.com)
7 days ago AI

Sources: Flock Safety is weighing a potential sale and has held preliminary talks with outside advisers (www.semafor.com)
9 days ago

Sources: Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for the AI czar position; other names include WH OSTP Director Michael Kratsios and OPM Director Scott Kupor (www.semafor.com)
10 days ago AI

Sources: in August, the US Commerce Department ordered Kalshi to take down its AI compute futures product, citing national security concerns and Kalshi complied (www.semafor.com)
12 days ago AI

Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (www.semafor.com)
23 days ago AI

China's Bilibili relaunches its international app and plans an English-language site; it has been pushing MrBeast and others to post on its Chinese site (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-25 China

Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-10 Spotify

Sapiom, which helps businesses build, ship, and scale AI agents and lower token costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Dragonfly, taking its total funding to $50M (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-6 AI

Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-6 Google

At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (www.semafor.com)
2026-8-1 China AI

Dubai- and London-based 1001, which uses AI to improve aviation, port, and energy infrastructure efficiency in the Gulf, raised $30M led by Lux Capital (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-30 Energy AI London Dubai

Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-30 Trump Tax SpaceX

Letter: the US lifts its block on Mythos 5, allowing Anthropic to release it to more than 100 US institutions; sources: talks about Fable 5 are ongoing (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-27

Sources: Trump officials discussed ways to structure government equity stakes in AI companies, with Commerce Secretary Lutnick favoring a sovereign wealth fund (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-17 Trump AI Equity

Source: the White House imposed export controls on Mythos partly over suspicions a China-linked group had accessed it (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-14 China

Google Quantum AI COO says the company declined funding from the $2B Trump administration grant because “conditions” attached would have slowed its work (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-11 Trump Google AI Quantum

Kalshi and Polymarket sponsored X posts promoting viral LA mayoral election fraud conspiracy theories; Kalshi says it asked its paid influencers to remove posts (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-6 Conspiracy

An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about catching up with “what was state of the art just a few months ago”, refusing to use distillation, more (www.semafor.com)
2026-6-3 Microsoft Interview AI

Sources: Jensen Huang was left out of President Trump's China trip to avoid unwanted scrutiny and awkward conversations about the sale of Nvidia chips to China (www.semafor.com)
2026-5-13 Trump China Nvidia

A slew of top Boston Dynamics execs have left the Hyundai-owned company in recent months, as sources say it faces pressure to speed the delivery of humanoids (www.semafor.com)
2026-5-3 Boston Dynamics

Letters: House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee are probing Airbnb and Cursor maker Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models (www.semafor.com)
2026-4-30 China AI Airbnb

An interview with Bill Nguyen, a tech entrepreneur who is completely outsourcing parts of his life to an AI assistant in his bid to create a virtual body double (www.semafor.com)
2026-4-27 Interview AI Entrepreneur

Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi says the crypto exchange has confidentially filed for a US IPO; it was valued at $13.3B this month, down from a $20B peak in late 2025 (www.semafor.com)
2026-4-15 IPO

Alat, a $100B Saudi Arabia PIF-backed electronics manufacturing fund, has removed CEO Amit Midha; sources say it has dropped plans to invest in chip production (www.semafor.com)
2026-4-11 Arabia Manufacturing Saudi Arabia

Sources: PayPal isn't in talks to sell itself, to Stripe or anyone, and has been preparing for months for a potential activist campaign or unwanted takeover bid (www.semafor.com)
2026-2-27

OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees (www.semafor.com)
2026-2-12

Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE to accommodate local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (www.semafor.com)
2026-2-7

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