So excited about this: Nayeema Raza & I will be co-hosting Mixed Signals from Semafor Media -- a new podcast on media as it intersects politics, culture, technology.

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The Semafor tech NL is out: We've got my take on the ScarJO fiasco and Katyanna's dispatch from Redmond. semafor.com/article/05/22/…

Scoop: Google DeepMind just dropped a framework for how to evaluate future AI models as they are being created, avoiding potentially dangerous capabilities: semafor.com/article/05/17/…

Google, as always, is dropping a massive number of new products at I/O - coming on two hours for the presentation. The biggest news is probably a unprecedented 2 million token context window, allowing a multi-modal Gemini to watch two hours of video. Another big one is 'Gems,'

Good scoop from Katyanna Quach : There's a growing backlash against using AI to peer-review academic papers. Read here (and in the Semafor tech newsletter): semafor.com/article/05/08/…

The latest Apple ad fail (a hydraulic press smashing beloved cultural artifacts and suggesting they can somehow be substituted with a tablet) is the second example in a year of a company appearing to fall out of touch with its customers.

The other one that comes to mind is

Do yourself a favor and buy Tom Chivers brilliant new book on how to think simonandschuster.com/books/Everythi…

🟡 SCOOP: Business Insider’s global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson is stepping down, Max Tani reports.
semafor.com/article/05/07/…

nice Semafor piece from Reed Albergotti on Braintrust 🧠 AIR

New scoop in Semafor tech today: Travis Kalanick-linked Digital Restaurant Association has registered to lobby in Los Angeles - continuing the fight over food delivery data. semafor.com/article/05/03/…

Scoop from Katyanna Quach on what Amazon's possible breakthrough on removing specific content from large language models - could be big for copyright, privacy and other legal issues ... (and maybe censorship?) semafor.com/article/05/01/…

Very fun conversation with Joseph Cox about his crazy new book semafor.com/article/04/29/…

My take on Australia's big $600m bet on PsiQuantum's plan for a mega quantum computer by 2027: semafor.com/article/04/29/…

Read Katyanna Quach with an interesting inside view in the race to build 'small' AI models that can run on phones not break the bank. In today's Semafor tech newsletter semafor.com/article/04/26/…

Worldcoin needs more orbs. A fun story in today's Semafor tech newsletter. semafor.com/article/04/24/…

First revealed at Semafor's World Economy Summit. youtube.com/watch?v=pB3hlI…

'Even though some of the headlines in recent years have been focused on things like ChatGPT or chatbots, I actually think some of the most transformative things are going to happen with AI in science,' Google DeepMind's Tom Lue tells Reed Albergotti #WES2024

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