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OpenAI is Dorothy: How ‘The Wizard of Oz’ helps explain the dizzying AI landscape

In the tornado of product releases, missteps, and policy measures, Semafor breaks down the major AI characters with the help of the iconic 1939 movie.
A graphic showing different AI companies as Wizard of Oz characters.Al Lucca/Semafor

Google names new chief AI architect to advance developments

DeepMind’s tech chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, was named to the newly created position, where he will work alongside Sundar Pichai to help speed up production.
Koray Kavukcuoglu.Courtesy of Google

Meta’s $15 billion investment in Scale AI comes with a hidden perk: data

Mark Zuckerberg’s firm is essentially paying in advance for expensive data creation: a crucial ingredient in the AI race
Reuters/Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/NurPhoto

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion

The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.
Courtesy AIM

Huawei chips ‘one generation behind’ US, CEO says

Ren Zhengfei’s remarks largely confirmed a report which said the chips regularly overheated when tested by Chinese tech firms.
Huawei Atlas 800 inference server.Tyrone Siu/File Photo/Reuters

Apple event likely highlights company’s challenges

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference is not expected to offer any groundbreaking innovations this year.
Apple CEO Tim Cook at the conference last year.Carlos Barria/File Photo/Reuters

Tech got played by the Musk-Trump bromance, but average Americans will pay the price

The US innovation ecosystem has been gutted by DOGE cuts and the White House targeting of foreigners, hurting American prosperity.

The ease of vibe coding could upend the economics of scarcity and scale

As the cost and difficulty of coding falls, how do companies adapt strategies and processes built on husbanding and prioritizing scarce tech resources?

The Rippling and Deel spy saga takes a turn with new allegations

Deel claims a Rippling employee posed as a customer and stole proprietary information.

Vibe coding will bring software closer to users

In a few years, creating a complex piece of software may be something third graders do. And that could mean developers will get much closer to the end-users of their products.

How vibe coding is tipping Silicon Valley’s scales of power

The rise of AI coding assistants puts software development into the hands of anyone with a good idea, with the next unicorn founder possibly having no technical background.

Ukraine’s unprecedented drone strike on Russia offers glimpse into the future of war

The audacious operation, dubbed “Russia’s Pearl Harbor,” reportedly took more than a year to plan.

Anthropic emerges as an adversary to Trump’s big bill

Sources familiar say the White House, angered by Anthropic’s lobbying against its chief piece of legislation, have come to view the AI company as an obstacle.

The key to AI memory is making it more human

The next big race for tech companies is perfecting their agents’ memory recall, and they’re each using a unique blend of tools to get there first.

The hottest new vibe coding startup may be a sitting duck for hackers

Lovable is accused of failing to fix security flaws that exposed information about users, a growing vulnerability as vibe coding’s popularity surges.

AI-powered fanfiction blurs political reality

Fake stories about real politicians sometimes get more views than real-world reporting that’s not built for the algorithms.

Jonathan Nolan’s ‘Person of Interest’ predicted AI. Westworld is helping build it.

The TV show creator and screenplay writer says he most asked about the 2010s crime drama depicting thefts of GPUs and generators to feed AI oracles.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink raises fresh cash at $9B valuation

The company, which implants experimental brain chips to help paralyzed patients, raised $600 million from private investors, people familiar with the matter said.