A tug-of-war over antitrust enforcement tests the White House’s dual impulses to challenge tech companies’ consolidation and to simply back big American business.| www.semafor.com
A host asked former President Donald Trump about declassifying files pertaining to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.| www.semafor.com
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.| www.semafor.com
Democrats can swap him out before the August convention, but face a time crunch and legal challenges.| www.semafor.com
The Biden team remains fixated on its longest-running adversary.| www.semafor.com
Jared Isaacman was set for a vote next week, but now the president is yanking his nomination.| www.semafor.com
Sen. Josh Hawley based his new bill to send $600 tariff rebate checks to Americans off of an idea from Trump, but it’s running into criticism from Republicans.| www.semafor.com
The New York Times’ executive editor said the paper is a “pillar” of democracy but not a tool of power.| www.semafor.com
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.| www.semafor.com
The company said it was greenlighting a number of AI programs for editorial and product staff.| www.semafor.com
There are differing views among those close to the Elon Musk-led group about exactly how far to go with cuts.| www.semafor.com
Big tech shifts right to meet Donald Trump’s Washington.| www.semafor.com
David Weigel talked to Vance in 2022 about his recurring riff about Democrats, including stepmom Kamala Harris, who had not had children themselves.| www.semafor.com
A worried call coming from inside the house.| www.semafor.com
In a memo to employees sent Tuesday evening, Sundar Pichai vowed to make structural changes to address the issues found in Gemini’s racially inaccurate images.| www.semafor.com
At the time of a recent meeting, the online outlet only had enough money to last several more weeks, sources told Semafor.| www.semafor.com
The company behind ChatGPT now employs around 1,000 people around the world to label data and help OpenAI’s models learn software engineering tasks.| www.semafor.com
A change in how Apple counts and tracks how many people are listening to podcasts is sending shock waves through the industry.| www.semafor.com
The scope and scale of the Iran Experts Initiative project emerge in a large cache of Iranian government correspondence and emails reported for the first time by Semafor and Iran International.| www.semafor.com
2024 is shaping as the first election of the age of fragmented media, with no single dominant platform for candidates to reach voters.| www.semafor.com
The tech giant has been in talks on deal to effectively own almost half of OpenAI, maker of the addictive, humanoid, AI-powered chatbot.| www.semafor.com
