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Reed Albergotti

Reed Albergotti

Tech Editor, Semafor

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Reed Albergotti is the technology editor at Semafor

Musk pitches ‘universal high income’

It’s the least he could do, Semafor’s Tech editor writes, considering how much money AI will make him when his Optimus robots start replacing all human jobs.
SpaceX Chief Engineer Elon Musk takes part in a news conference at the SpaceX Starbase, in Brownsville, TexasAdrees Latif/Reuters

Expect more tech layoffs

They were a long time coming, and a good thing for the tech ecosystem.
A man uses a phone next to a Microsoft logo Romina Amato/Reuters

AIs hunt for signs of intelligent life

Scientists are using Nvidia GPUs to examine the data produced by telescopes like the James Webb, regularly discovering the oldest galaxies in the universe.
Astrophysics simulations visualized using an Nvidia tool. Courtesy of Nvidia.

The man who is paying to see the future

Serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen says his use of AI has moved beyond chatbot to body double.
Bill Nguyen in 2011. Brendan McDermid/Reuters.

Is X downranking TBPN clips?

Elon Musk, who owns the platform, has been openly sparring with the ChatGPT maker for months.
Chris Lehane speaking at Semafor World Economy. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Semafor

AI tokens may be starting to rival labor costs

The growing cost of tokens is a line item that CFOs are having trouble planning for.
A view shows detail of racks for data servers, GPUs and CPUs inside the Nebius AI UK data centre, a new facility hosting NVIDIA and other computer firms, at Ark Data Centres, in Chertsey, BritainToby Melville/Reuters

Google is doing just fine on AI

The company has a clear beachhead through its consumers.

Apple makes a safe choice in a dangerous moment

Apple’s choice of John Ternus to replace CEO Tim Cook signals the company plans to stay its cautious and lucrative course.

Why it pays to fund the wrong research

The administration needs to be okay with funding research that might prove useful many decades in the future.

Anthropic’s Mythos is a wake-up call for AI

Models like Mythos are a glimpse into an AI future, but the change might not be as dramatic as some people think.

Anthropic is gaining on OpenAI’s revenue, but hasn’t yet eclipsed it

The companies report revenue differently when they sell their tokens through cloud partners like AWS, Google and Microsoft.

Why OpenAI’s slowdown isn’t as bad as it looks

Is OpenAI cooked? Absolutely not.

AI research foundation releases test that will warn when AGI arrives

The ARC-AGI-3 test presents game-like puzzles the AI must work out on the fly, and a researcher behind it said even top AI models score below 1%.

Microsoft says AI voice command needs more work

There’s more work to be done to train the technology to understand what we mean.

Anthropic’s Mythos won’t solve the cybersecurity crisis

The state of cybersecurity is abysmal and AI-assisted coding has been making it worse.

Microsoft doesn’t mind following the leader on AI

Being first isn’t necessarily the same as winning.

OpenAI’s talk show acquisition points to the industry’s image problem

The story around AI has turned negative in many corners of the world outside of Silicon Valley.

The compute bottleneck could be good for tech innovation

The shortage of AI compute is actually forcing companies to stay focused.