The State Department is updating its travel advisory for mainland China to include an increased risk level for wrongful detention, according to a new plan seen by Semafor.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he plans to unveil $2 billion in new European investments next week, as the continent’s economic prospects get a boost from AI.
Alphabet’s shares fell as much as 13% Thursday, erasing more than $500 billion in market value in the worst single-day performance for the Google parent company after it reported slowing search revenue growth.
AI experts are coming — and the pretenders too. “Anybody who knows anything about AI” is in high demand from investors trying to play the AI trade, said Gemma Postlethwaite, CEO of expert network GLG. And there are plenty of deepfakes and people using AI chatbots willing to play ...
AI companies can soften support for statewide data center moratoriums like New York’s by committing to pay for related electricity costs and lessen local environmental impacts, according to a new poll from major firms in both parties.
Perplexity is giving away the software it has been using to combat rogue AI agents, the company told Semafor Thursday.
Alphabet’s stock fell 7% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company missed profit projections and increased its AI spending past $50 billion in the third quarter.
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is preparing to inform organizers of the 2034 men’s soccer World Cup that it plans to drop five new stadiums it proposed to build to host the tournament, according to people familiar with the matter.
Volkswagen reported a bigger-than-expected third-quarter loss, the latest major legacy automaker to be hammered by competition with Chinese rivals both at home and abroad. The disappointing results — its worst in a decade — come after fellow German carmaking giants Mercedes-Benz ...
The White House’s AI task force has formally adopted its charter, kicking off the short 120-day window it’s been given to answer some extremely thorny questions about how the government should handle the rapid development of AI technology.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to expand his country’s influence in Africa, where China and the US have been vying for power, appear to be falling short. Though the Kremlin agreed to several deals at a summit with African leaders in Moscow — including selling fighter ...
A number of national political figures are looking svelte these days. But it doesn’t do to rifle through public figures’ medicine cabinets. And only a few of them are saying much about the policy implications of the new class of miracle drugs that promise to reverse America’s obe...
The first million barrels of oil to emerge from this year’s US-Venezuela deal arrived in Texas this week — cargo that Trump described as a “gift” delivered for free — but elections in both countries could put the deal’s future at risk.