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2026-11-05 · Semafor · Politics

Voters' data center rebuke hits some tech companies harder than others

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2026-11-04 · Semafor · Politics

US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

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2026-10-02 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Amazon launches new data center commitments

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2026-10-30 · Semafor · Technology

The AI boom spawns job market for data-center liaisons

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2026-10-28 · Semafor · Technology

Tech companies lean into AI at home

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2026-10-28 · Semafor · Technology

'All In' podcast cools on ‘super intelligence’

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2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 It’s also a partner on a privately funded, AI-planned project that aims to send a craft to Alpha Centauri — the nearest star system to Earth — a trip that would take an estimated 70,000 to 75,000 years. assertive

2026-09-12 · Semafor

🔮 More efficient power conversion reduces the amount of electricity that data centers would otherwise lose as heat, which requires more water to cool servers. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 In absence of that, the private sector will have no choice but to lean on unofficial cross-border communication and collaboration to keep the next WeChat worm from leaving the lab. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 Unlike in the US, where many workplaces are banning the glasses, Chinese companies that allow them face other security risks since they could in theory amass businesses’ data, including sensitive documents or internal codebases. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The plans require rethinking safety “from the ground up,” CEO Marc Theermann told Semafor, since he wants to make robots that people will be comfortable hugging. assertive

2026-09-15 · Semafor

🔮 The attack tool, known as a worm, could allow someone to hijack WeChat accounts and spread automatically through victims’ contacts. mixed

2026-09-16 · Semafor

🔮 Over the summer, a hacker was able to deploy frontier AI models to breach a European IT and software company in less than 10 hours — something that would ordinarily take human hackers around two weeks, said Palo Alto Networks, which helped defend the firm against an extortion attempt. assertive

2026-09-17 · Semafor

🔮 El Hallak’s argument provides insight into the more technical case — as opposed to the geopolitical or ideological ones — for why AI doomerism may be overblown. mixed

2026-09-18 · Semafor

🔮 The Scene A prominent researcher is warning the world is on the verge of a massive transformation thanks to the emergence of a new technology that could drastically benefit society or cause massive destruction. mixed

2026-09-25 · Semafor

🔮 Some analysts predict it could be the catalyst for agentic AI to leap from business to consumer applications. assertive

2026-10-02 · Semafor

🔮 The AI bill is coming for governments and businesses, and no one knows whether the money will be there to pay it. assertive

2026-10-12 · Semafor

🔮 More than half of the references to data centers on Fox News over the last two years would have left viewers with a favorable impression, compared to less than 10% on CNN and 5% on MS NOW, according to a new Semafor analysis of mentions of data centers on each network. assertive

2026-10-16 · Semafor

🔮 Eventually, Perla said he wants to launch the “New York Token Exchange,” a marketplace for AI models in which thousands of models from thousands of hosting providers — any data center willing to run an open model — would compete to serve each request, turning AI tokens into a commodity that could be traded with futures, hedges, and price indices, like oil or electricity. mixed

2026-10-21 · Semafor

🔮 The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America is divided over whether the AI industry is a destructive capitalist force that could kill everyone, or merely an overhyped capitalist hustle. assertive

2026-10-23 · Semafor

🔮 Proof-of-human technology, which can let a person vouch for the AI agents acting on their behalf, could keep bad bots off of websites without forcing platforms to block all of them. mixed

2026-10-28 · Semafor

🔮 Another feature lets users build a 3D map of their house, then pull in Ring cameras to monitor people and cars moving around outside — the kind of spatial data home robots will eventually need, too. mixed

2026-10-28 · Semafor

🔮 If even they’ve given up on “SI,” there may be little hope for it catching on among the general public. mixed

2026-10-28 · Semafor

🔮 The company reported an 85% gross profit margin on the core work of running its existing AI models — as The Information wrote, it’s “a reality check” for skeptics who thought the consumption-based, pay-as-you-go pricing wouldn’t be profitable. assertive

2026-10-30 · Semafor

🔮 Anthropic advertises a salary floor of $265,000 for charmers willing to spend half their time on the road in increasingly hostile territory. assertive

2026-11-05 · Semafor

🔮 The votes were hyperlocal and often emotional in nature, but they could carry financial consequences, because some of the projects at stake were already in motion. mixed