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"I had a council of Claudes that I would consult with before I turned things in to my wonderful human editors at FSG."
Former New York Times tech columnist @kevinroose tells @semaforben and @maxwelltani about the different ways he used AI to help write his recent book, "The AGI Chronicles."
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From the @semafor media newsletter: The message from ABC News that it published last week's story on Trump Jr/Anduril/1789 "prematurely" was misleading. Per emails shared with Semafor, the outlet's editors initially reviewed and stood by the piece.
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Hours of silence and speculation in the aftermath added to a sense of fear in Saudi Arabia and across the region.
Several people were wounded in another likely Houthi attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Saturday, the third strike this week on the gateway to Saudi Arabia’s capital.
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Rwanda looks set to host the continent’s first F1 Grand Prix race in more than 30 years, beating rival South Africa.
Ariel Investments’ John Rogers goes from a longtime listener to a caller at Mattel.
Zambia has signed a $1.5 billion health financing agreement with the US, separating it from a critical minerals deal that is still being negotiated.
Navi Pillay, a South African jurist who was the UN’s longest-serving human rights chief, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, raised its growth forecast despite concerns over the Iran war.
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The Federal Trade Commission is close to sending investigative demands to frontier AI companies, a senior agency official told Semafor — a sign that its AI probe is moving forward after its unusual disclosure to the public.
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"We build humanizers to help make the Pangram model more robust, but we're never going to release it because I think that would just be an evil thing to do."
@pangram CEO @max_spero_ tells @semaforben and @maxwelltani why the company makes the tools it's trying to stop.
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@YinkaWrites writes: The numbers are there: the broader sub-Saharan African diaspora in the US has swelled to roughly 4.8 million people, tripling since 2000, according to Migration Policy Institute data. Nearly 50% of adults hold a bachelor’s degree or higher — outpacing both the broader immigrant population and native-born Americans.
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The African diaspora is often discussed as a vast reservoir of capital and goodwill waiting to be tapped for the continent’s development. But that may undersell its value, argues @YinkaWrites.
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An energy price spike in Nigeria is renewing fears of an inflation rise and concerns that Africa’s top oil producer remains vulnerable to global shocks.
AI cybersecurity risks explode as Anthropic's Claude used to break into OpenAI's ChatGPT systems
NEWS with @BurgessEv: Shaheen has a hold on the Trump administration's $2.8 billion sale to Israel — and has since July, @Semafor is told.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman will attend the Sept. 24 state dinner that President Donald Trump is hosting for Xi, Semafor has confirmed, and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Apple’s Tim Cook are reportedly attending, too.
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.@max_spero_ really overcame a lot of my Pangram skepticism in this conversation
General Motors will manufacture components for Patriot missiles for Lockheed Martin, potentially boosting efforts to plug the US’ gaping munitions holes that have emerged during more than six months of conflict with Iran.
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