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Democrats I've spoken with over the last 24 hours have essentially told me the idea of Elon Musk returning to is crazy. I can only imagine the conversations Ro Khanna is having rn. At the same time, Dems could benefit from unemotional pragmatism semafor.com/article/06/06/…

Nice Reed Albergotti scoop on a new Meta AI deal semafor.com/article/06/10/…

Scoop: Google is getting a "Chief AI architect" to speed up development of new AI-powered products across the company, according to memo from Sundar Pichai. Koray Kavukcuoglu will stay CTO of Google DeepMind and move to Mountain View for new role. semafor.com/article/06/11/…

Actually, this is a recipe for a really rewarding life if you’re a recent college grad not sure what to do: Find a small town you could love with a local newspaper whose owners are ready to retire. Raise the capital to buy it. Run it with the community’s interests at heart.

Interesting to see xAI researcher Xiao Sun speaking with AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage at the AMD event.

On stage at the AMD event, Humain CEO Tareq Amin says massive AI data centers will be powered with a combination of renewable and "traditional" power. Across the industry, aggressive climate goals will be a challenge when it comes to the "traditional" part.

sam altman shows up at AMD event -

Richmond bridge shut down again! Completely stopped

🟡 SCOOP: Reddit is considering using World ID, the verification system based on iris-scanning Orbs, whose parent company was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Reed Albergotti reports. World ID could soon become a way for Reddit users to verify that they are unique

A bit of a quantum scoop this AM as networking startup Qunnect adds Cisco as investor in new fundraising round semafor.com/article/06/24/…

Anthropic is starting an "Economics Futures Program" that will study the economic impact of AI. New from Reed Albergotti, who will be on Big Technology's Friday show today. semafor.com/article/06/27/… via Semafor

New: Dario Amodei thinks AI is going to lead to significant job losses. Now Anthropic is going to fund research on that subject and what to do about it. semafor.com/article/06/27/…

It's always a good conversation on Alex Kantrowitz and today's Big Technology podcast was especially fun. Give it a listen! bigtechnology.com/podcast

If you've been following the recent Lance Armstrong podcast controversy, you'll enjoy this Jonathan Kaplan episode where we relive the original doping scandal and what it was like to break all those stories in the The Wall Street Journal with Vanessa O'Connell ridingwithkaplan.substack.com/p/a-conversati…

Just wrapped up an interesting and fun couple of days of fireside chats, panels and interviews in Paris at the RAISE Summit. Some takeaways here and more on Friday. semafor.com/newsletter/07/…

Since "forward deployed engineer" comes up in every conversation I have now, I finally wrote something about the hottest new/old job in tech. semafor.com/article/07/11/…

Also, thoughts in the Semafor tech newsletter today on the extreme highs and lows of xAI semafor.com/article/07/11/…

Tried out the Perplexity Comet browser. It’s great for annoying and slow web sites. I just asked it to change a flight and it did. I knew what I needed to buy on Amazon so I just asked it to order it. Didn’t need to use the web sites. Next test: expenses.