👤 Reed Albergotti

2026-09-12 · Semafor · Technology

We have nothing to fear but AI fear itself

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2026-09-06 · Semafor · Technology

OpenAI's Hugging Face hack reveals questions about AI predictability

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2026-09-04 · Semafor · Technology

Astra kicks off AI monitoring debate

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2026-09-04 · Semafor · Technology

US needs nimble approach to technological governance

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2026-09-18 · Semafor · Technology

The real reason not to IPO

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2026-09-04 · Semafor · Technology

Breaking up Google could have handed more power to other monopolies

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2026-08-27 · Semafor

🔮 I don’t have a lot of confidence that LLMs will get much better at writing, though. assertive

2026-09-04 · Semafor

🔮 Astra appears to do less of its thinking out loud, giving researchers little insight into whether it might be hiding something or planning something it shouldn’t. mixed

2026-09-04 · Semafor

🔮 Consumer prices rose anyway, because without competition, Amazon could charge more in the long run. assertive

2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 But Dwarkesh’s civilizations will need to be a lot more powerful to conquer the world. assertive

2026-09-12 · Semafor

🔮 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’ environmental costs, hacking, and AI’s impact on the job market. mixed

2026-09-13 · Semafor

🔮 A calm read of Amodei’s proposal may lower your blood pressure. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 He could not immediately be reached for comment. mixed

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Meta’s new AI assistant Muse could be the first experience a lot of people have with the power of AI that can actually do things for you, rather than just answer questions. mixed

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The movie seems like an attempt to paint Altman and AI as villains, with lines like “Countries will fall. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets. mixed

2026-09-18 · Semafor

🔮 Some inside OpenAI and Anthropic were “blindsided” by an apparent agreement over the weekend that both companies would slow down the pace of AI research, the FT reported. assertive

2026-09-30 · Semafor

🔮 Offering always-on, agentic assistant tools will cost OpenAI and Meta — which recently launched its cutesy agent Muse — a ton of money, and it’s not clear yet that these agents will work well. assertive

2026-10-07 · Semafor

🔮 Plus, why nobody would work for Mark Zuckerberg if he resembled Aaron Sorkin’s celluloid version in the upcoming film The Social Reckoning. assertive