Category: Semafor

The News JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — The Federal Reserve has so far “been a little too quiet” about the Treasury Department’s campaign to bring down yields by buying back more long-term debt, former Kansas City Fed President Tom Hoenig told Semafor. “What they’re trying to do is not identify with ...

The News Consumer sentiment among Republicans and independents is “starting to fade” ahead of the midterm elections, The Conference Board Chief Economist Dana Peterson told Semafor. The Conference Board said last week that its overall consumer confidence index had dropped to its lowest level since January. Economists had predicted it ...

The News “It doesn’t feel great to constantly be berated like this,” said Hasan Piker. By Friday morning, when he caught up with Semafor, the socialist influencer had spent the past week watching Democrats condemn him or distance themselves from his commentary. Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who he’d ...

The US government said this week it seized digital infrastructure behind a Chinese hacking operation that targeted NASA, the Federal Reserve, and the Senate beginning in 2018, evidence, experts say, that illustrates the growing scale and persistence of Beijing’s cyber operations. The court documents show China is “doubling down” on ...

The News JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh made his debut Friday on one of the global economy’s biggest stages, where he appeared to play the hawk. But looks can be deceiving. Warsh used his first speech at the Kansas City Fed’s storied economic policy symposium in ...

The Scoop Google and Microsoft were both in talks with Nscale to rent AI computing capacity from the company’s massive data center project in West Virginia — a lease that ultimately went to Anthropic, a person familiar with the matter told Semafor. The AI startup will pay $45 billion to ...

The Scene If you can’t beat ’em, hook up your data to a chatbot. Salesforce this week announced “Claudeforce,” a partnership with Anthropic that lets salespeople look up customer records and check on deals by typing requests to Claude, instead of clicking through a Salesforce dashboard. The massive software solutions ...

Reed’s view One common response to warnings that a rogue AI could eventually threaten humanity is that humanity will also have plenty of AI firepower available to counter it. That idea just got a real-world test, and came up short. The research nonprofit METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research) investigated ...

A US judge blocked the Pentagon’s attempt to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk, a major victory for the AI firm in its legal wranglings with Washington. The Department of Defense attempted to blacklist Anthropic in February after the company refused to remove restrictions on its AI models being used for ...

Icelanders will decide tomorrow whether to resume talks on joining the EU in a vote that has taken on deeper significance in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s threats in the Arctic. Polls in the tiny island nation — which does not have armed forces —  are almost evenly split. ...