Category: Semafor

The Scene China is key to global manufacturing across a range of sectors, but foreign capitals — increasingly worried about domestic industry being hollowed out in the face of cheap, high-quality goods from the country — are cracking down. Few are doing so more aggressively than India, which has set ...

The partner set to take over leadership of Weil, Gotshal & Manges has held talks to leave the firm for a rival, a move that would compound ongoing talent drain at one of Wall Street’s top dealmaking and restructuring shops. Ramona Nee, Weil’s co-managing partner, has had discussions to join ...

The Scoop The New York Times article appeared on September 24, 2025, under the headline . The 4,980-word investigation by Katherine Rosman and Elisabeth Egan captured a wave of discomfort that had rippled from New York’s publishing world to Amarillo, Texas’ police department about a bestselling memoir by a billionaire ...

The US announced plans to remove tariffs on certain Canadian products after an embattled Republican senator in Maine lobbied for the move, as the White House looks to bolster its candidates ahead of Nov. 3. Waiving tariffs on some Canadian agricultural products could presage similar efforts in Michigan and New ...

Brazil’s incumbent left-wing president faced off against his favored right-wing challenger Sunday in a narrow runoff election that will determine the direction of Latin America’s largest economy. If he wins, Flávio Bolsonaro would secure the eighth consecutive rightist victory in Latin America’s presidential elections, boosting US efforts to influence the ...

Corporate America’s massive AI investments have delivered “zero financial payoff” outside the Magnificent 7, a new Apollo analysis found, intensifying investors’ fears over big AI spending ahead of critical Big Tech earnings this week. Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon are expected to report strong growth, but beating estimates is no longer ...

Western luxury brands have lost roughly $280 billion in value this year as Chinese consumers spend more on domestic products but less overall. Chinese producers are increasingly competing with Western challengers not only on price but on quality as Beijing looks to shed the shoddy reputation of “made in China.” ...

In the largest European experiment to counter mosquito-borne diseases, Barcelona has released more than half a million male mosquitoes carrying a parasite that causes effective sterility. The trials, which will continue until mid-November, aim to replicate results from Singapore that demonstrated the wolbachia parasite’seffectiveness in reducing dengue cases by 70%; ...

House Democrats are making a play for a red seat in Kansas, but Republicans are competitive in a California seat — and both are releasing polling to back it up. Democrat Don Coover is down by three points against incumbent Republican Rep. Derek Schmidt, within the 3.9% margin of error, ...

The future of agentic commerce hinges on the ability to know whether it’s a human or an AI agent that’s making a purchase, and the tools to do that are arriving fast. Proof-of-human technology, which can let a person vouch for the AI agents acting on their behalf, could keep ...