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2026-09-06 · Semafor · Technology

Coefficient Giving’s CEO on Silicon Valley $40 billion philanthropy boom

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2026-11-02 · Semafor · Entertainment

How a Kansas City vlogger captivated New York society

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2026-11-03 · Semafor · Politics

What not to watch on Election Day

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2026-10-29 · Semafor · Health

2028 candidates: What’s your GLP-1 plan?

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2026-10-19 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Four years of Semafor

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2026-10-13 · Semafor · Politics

Why would anyone want this job?

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2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 This “third wave of American philanthropy,” Stripe’s Nan Ransohoff wrote in May, will flow primarily from planned Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs expected later this year; if they come off as planned, she estimated they’ll generate an estimated $370 billion in new philanthropic assets. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The only solution, Allen said, would be the intervention of “big daddy gummint.” assertive

2026-09-21 · Semafor

🔮 Barring a cultural revolution, its current students will more or less be running the country from about 2045 to 2070. assertive

2026-09-28 · Semafor

🔮 “We don’t need” the money, Cessario said, noting the brand will do some $5 million in merch sales alone this year. assertive

2026-09-28 · Semafor

🔮 The Brussels news organization known as Euractiv will relaunch Tuesday as Rapporteur, its CEO René Moerland told staff Monday, as competition intensifies for wall-to-wall coverage of EU politics. assertive

2026-10-12 · Semafor

🔮 He added that “any people I’ve covered over the years gave me drafts of speeches, saying, ‘This will be our campaign, what are your thoughts?’ assertive

2026-10-13 · Semafor

🔮 On May 13, 2022, then-White House Middle East envoy Brett McGurk asked his boss how he liked his job. assertive

2026-10-19 · Semafor

🔮 Did we think it would get this much traction, this fast? assertive

2026-10-29 · Semafor

🔮 He was feeling good when we spoke this week: He said he has more energy, he goes for walks, and he’s stepped off a lifelong “rollercoaster” of struggling with his weight. “When I think about all the ill effects of obesity across the population, and the costs that come with it — and I’m talking about personal cost as well as financial cost — it feels to me like we may have stumbled onto something,” he marveled. assertive

2026-11-02 · Semafor

🔮 She doesn’t, one person I spoke to noted, seem like the sort of person who would be found on Lanai. assertive

2026-11-03 · Semafor

🔮 Media companies — like ours — will be there to keep you company, of course, in our case with superb analysis and a thoughtful afternoon livestream. assertive