3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (144+ words) 25 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Western societies face resurgent terrorism threats from drones and AI. The global jihadi movement is fractured 25 years after the Sept 11 attacks and lacks the capacity to launch similarly sophisticated operations, analysts said, but societies face…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (332+ words) A few minutes before Donald Trump got on stage in Dallas Wednesday night, Joe Allen was warning a hard-right crowd across town about immigration. “You look at the data center, this incubator for algorithmic immigrants,” he said. “They’ve already broken…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) The new law comes as the feasibility of AI oversight is in question for being impossible and too expensive. A new California law passed earlier this week creates a framework for “Independent Verification Organizations” that can test frontier AI…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (536+ words) Congress should ultimately add teeth to President Donald Trump’s voluntary framework for data center developers to shield utility ratepayers from the cost of their power demand, Sen. Katie Britt told Semafor in an interview this week. “I’d love to see…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (169+ words) The gates to Colombia’s fossil fuel industry may be reopening, but security and fiscal issues remain. President Abelardo de la Espriella pledged to revoke a ban on new exploration licenses for oil and gas projects implemented under his predecessor Gustavo…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (721+ words) If you’re running for office right now, the future is a dangerous place to be. The backlash against hyperscale data centers has converted both Democrats and Republicans into AI skeptics, warning that the industry’s rise risks robbing communities of autonomy....

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (163+ words) President Bola Tinubu’s main opponents will be Atiku Abubakar, a former vice president, and former state governor Peter Obi. Nigeria’s top presidential candidates vow to prioritize economic growth The leading candidates in Nigeria’s January presidential election — campaigning for which officially…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (587+ words) Most Fortune 500 companies, Glover says, have largely operated inside the law in making payments to President Donald Trump’s favored causes, and their lawyers will tie Democrats into knots. Most of all, she thinks, remember what happened with Musk in 2024? “These…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (178+ words) The Trump administration told a handful of tech firms Tuesday that it will not publicly release its new framework for voluntary government reviews of advanced AI models, people familiar with the meeting told Semafor. The decision, reported first by Axios,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (145+ words) The US has imposed more tariffs on Chinese goods, blacklisted dozens more Chinese companies, and banned new Chinese humanoid robots. Preparations for the high-stakes US-China summit in Washington next month are off to a rocky start The US has imposed…...