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View: Everyone expects two AI blocs. The Gulf is betting on both
38+ min ago (286+ words) Saudi Arabia is building enormous AI infrastructure, partnering with US firms and using American chips — AWS alone has committed $5.3 billion to data centers in the kingdom. Yet at Riyadh’s LEAP conference this month, state-backed HUMAIN unveiled Arabic technology built on…...
View: How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment
18+ hour, 24+ min ago (557+ words) The “AI is going to kill us all” news cycle continued into the weekend, as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and XAI’s Elon Musk joined Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to invite independent reviewers into AI labs to ensure the world’s smartest…...
Republicans’ midterm promise is more populism, and more cash
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (471+ words) DALLAS – Republicans arrived at their first midterm convention ready to sell their wins for “working class” Americans, including hundreds of billions of dollars for tax cuts, refunds, and savings accounts.They left it ready to spend another trillion dollars in…...
Exclusive: Activist Oasis seeks board seats at Vail Resorts
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (183+ words) 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. Neither the names of the nominees nor how many seats Oasis…...
The Next 3 Billion | Semafor
3+ day, 48+ min ago (121+ words) As the next wave of technology-led growth reshapes economies and global influence, The Next 3 Billion asks one of the defining questions of the decade: will the innovations reshaping global power expand opportunity or concentrate it? Three billion people remain offline,…...
View: How do you price the end of the world?
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (131+ words) A look at the possible risk factors for the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs now that fear about AI destroying humanity is mainstream. The SceneExistential AI fears broke containment this week after an Anthropic researcher quit, warning that frontier labs are…...
Exclusive: El-Sayed hits Rogers on healthcare during Republican convention
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (160+ words) El-Sayed hits Rogers on healthcare during Republican convention Semafor Exclusive / El-Sayed hits Rogers on healthcare during Republican convention Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is going after Republican opponent Mike Rogers’ healthcare record in a new ad, timed to land…...
Global coal consumption to reach new record
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (155+ words) China remains by far the world’s coal heavyweight: Its power sector alone consumes one-third of the world’s coal. Rising natural gas prices wrought by the Iran war will boost global coal consumption to a new record of nearly 9 billion metric…...
AI loses a Dallas debate
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (332+ words) A few minutes before Donald Trump got on stage in Dallas Wednesday night, Joe Allen was warning a hard-right crowd across town about immigration. “You look at the data center, this incubator for algorithmic immigrants,” he said. “They’ve already broken…...
Exclusive: Trump adviser warns time running out on crypto bill
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (1169+ words) President Donald Trump’s top cryptocurrency adviser is warning senators that next week could be the last chance Congress gets to accomplish the crypto industry’s top legislative priority — at least, for a while. “I would say to everyone, Republican and Democrat: Get…...