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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)
9 days ago 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)
13 days ago 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)
13 days ago 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)
17 days ago 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

Sources: after HP CEO Enrique Lores left to become PayPal CEO, HP was blindsided and rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had been at HP since 1989 (www.semafor.com)
2026-2-4

Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week (www.semafor.com)
2026-1-23 China Oracle

Adam Mosseri says “maybe we'll need” premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (www.semafor.com)
2025-12-22 Instagram Algorithm

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)
2025-12-13 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)
2025-12-13 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)
2025-12-11 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)
2025-12-9 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

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