Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is launching a post-Election Day war room to guard against efforts by Trump to “steal the election,” vowing Democrats will fight “every step of the way” in a letter to the Democratic Caucus shared first with Semafor. Senate Democrats will speak with party lawyer Marc ...
‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage
In the wake of fanfiction repository Archive of Our Own (AO3) announcing a weeks-long security incident outage, readers and writers are reflecting on why the site is important to the fanfiction community, and how they’re coping with the downtime. On Thursday, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), the non-profit organization ...
US approves sale of 500 Patriot missiles to UkraineUS approves sale of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine
The American-made interceptors are the only effective weapon for downing Russia’s ballistic missiles. ...
The AI boom spawns job market for data-center liaisonsThe AI boom spawns job market for data-center liaisons
Who says data centers don’t create jobs? Many of the industry’s biggest players, including hyperscalers, AI labs, and data-center developers, are advertising six-figure roles for policy wonks able to woo local communities where data centers are planned, a Semafor analysis found. Microsoft is looking for people to lead messaging and ...
My reporting prompted Dartmouth provost to resign. It wasn’t the right callMy reporting prompted Dartmouth provost to resign. It wasn’t the right call
Reed’s view In August, I wrote about the use of AI in guest columns published in major news outlets, including by Dartmouth Provost Santiago Schnell. This week, he resigned. The thing is, he shouldn’t have lost his job. Schnell’s was one of 50 guest columns that included AI-generated text that ...
“One of the greatest novels of the 19th century”“One of the greatest novels of the 19th century”
, by Bolesław Prus. With the release of two new, hotly debated screen adaptations of this 1890 Polish novel, a new generation is discovering the literary classic. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as “one of the greatest novels of the 19th century,” is a “richly detailed panoramic portrait of Warsaw under ...
Republicans ask FEC to investigate Peltola campaign over spoiler candidateRepublicans ask FEC to investigate Peltola campaign over spoiler candidate
Top Republicans are directing the Federal Election Commission to investigate Democratic Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s role in the effort to prop up a spoiler candidate with the same name as her opponent, incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan, according to details first shared with Semafor. On the heels of new ...
Africa’s AI bet is on building, not catching upAfrica’s AI bet is on building, not catching up
Yinka’s view There is no shortage of pessimism about Africa’s prospects in the AI race. The continent, we are regularly told, doesn’t have the computing power, capital, or energy to compete. But investors and founders I spoke with in Lagos this week don’t see this as another tech revolution that ...
‘I felt bad for my exes’: Awkwafina on making deeply personal TV – with her grandma‘I felt bad for my exes’: Awkwafina on making deeply personal TV – with her grandma
The star takes on her biggest challenge yet: resurrecting her family’s Cantonese restaurant. She discusses the stress of rewatching her sitcom, nearly becoming a meat inspector … and her beloved matriarch, who passed away after filming I’m embarrassed I didn’t bring anything. It’s 10-something in the morning, and I’m meeting ...
This is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop national populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules | Jonathan FreedlandThis is the hard lesson from Israel’s election: to stop national populists, you can’t play by gentlemen’s rules | Jonathan Freedland
The opposition can’t win unless they join forces with Arab parties. Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, and will use every ruse to stay in power It’s less an election result than a philosophical puzzle: what happens when a win contains a loss, a loss contains a win and the two collide? ...