Category: Semafor

The News On Oct. 10, an unhappy billionaire, Amy Griffin, confronted a former host, Billy Bush, at a celebrity wedding on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. Guests included Demi Moore and Tobey Maguire. It was the sort of thing that delights the entertainment media, even if you won’t often read ...

The News Democratic party leaders have found themselves unable to stave off an embarrassing schism in Michigan’s must-win Senate race, a crisis that may offer a glimpse of internal battles to come. Days of frantic shuttle diplomacy and attempts to organize a joint appearance by erstwhile Senate primary rivals Abdul ...

The FBI said that North Korea was responsible for stealing $6.3 billion from Binance last week in the largest-ever crypto heist, dealing a blow to the sector’s dream of becoming a mainstream asset. The incident follows other notable crypto thefts linked to Pyongyang, which devotes state resources to cultivating hackers, ...

The News Democratic party leaders have found themselves unable to stave off an embarrassing schism in Michigan’s must-win Senate race, a crisis that may offer a glimpse of internal battles to come. Days of frantic shuttle diplomacy and attempts to organize a joint appearance by erstwhile Senate primary rivals Abdul ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...