Category: Semafor

Iran and the UAE held their highest-level meeting since the start of the Iran war at the BRICS summit in India, where the two countries found a rare space for direct diplomacy. The meeting came after months of escalating tensions, including Abu Dhabi’s suspension of trade with Tehran in August ...

Opposition to US tariffs formed a point of consensus among the otherwise divergent interests at the BRICS summit, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted the bloc’s “coming of age.” Trade tensions — though the US or President Donald Trump was never mentioned by name in the joint statement — ...

US President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukraine to stop striking Russian refineries, after Kyiv struck several over the weekend, attacks that he said were increasing the price of diesel and “hurting the world.” Russia targeted Ukraine with more than 2,000 drones and nearly 80 ballistic missiles last week, ...

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the US should have the world’s lowest interest rates, piling pressure on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh days before the bank is expected to raise them amid an increasingly hawkish global outlook. Trump’s call comes on the heels of a hotter-than-expected US inflation ...

Saudi Arabia shut down its vital East-West pipeline after multiple drone attacks, intensifying the pressure on Gulf energy exports. The pipeline had provided a workaround for Saudi crude, allowing the kingdom to bypass the Strait of Hormuz; its shuttering threatens the loss of 4% of the global oil supply, Reuters ...

Reed’s view The “AI is going to kill us all” news cycle revved up, 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 computer scientists don’t accidentally cause the extinction of the human ...

The News Communities and governments should demand AI data center providers report how much energy they are wasting, rather than put blanket bans on the facilities, the CEO of chipmaker Onsemi told Semafor. Data center moratoriums like the one enacted in New York are “short-sighted,” Hassane El-Khoury said during a ...

Reed’s view When researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic this week and claimed there’s a good chance the company’s work will lead to human extinction, the world reacted with fear and outrage about AI — but most of the backlash conflates several issues, including data centers’ environmental costs, hacking, and ...

Universal Music Group has found a way to work with AI. The music company announced on Thursday a partnership with voice AI firm ElevenLabs, allowing users to draw from its catalog of music — its roster of artists must choose to opt in — to create remixes and new takes ...

Hollywood is making a gamble that AI obsession will translate into big hauls at the box office. Four movies about AI and Silicon Valley will compete this fall for theater goer dollars: A four-hour-long documentary, , which debuted at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week and which Musk has ...