Reed Albergotti

San Francisco Bureau Chief

Reed is the founding technology editor at Semafor. He has been covering the technology industry since 2013 across The Washington Post, The Information and The Wall Street Journal.

Human complacency creates the AI age’s biggest problems

The bugs OpenAI models discovered this week have existed for more than a decade, and PHP, the programming language that contained them, is 30 years old.

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Microsoft’s Nadella is back in business

“We, as an industry, have to wake up to this,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told Semafor about the AI race. “It’s not about the shiny object and FOMO.”

Why the AI bubble fears are overblown

Money is not going to be the thing that finally causes the AI train to go off the rails.

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Perplexity to give away its AI security software

The company’s “AI sandbox,” is now an open source project, allowing outside developers to use the tool, which it says can keep AI agents contained.

The AI era will redefine business

Reflection AI co-founder and CTO Ioannis Antonoglou said this week on Semafor’s Future Proof that in the AI era, companies have to throw out what they’ve done for decades and come up with new ways to measure and carry out their work.

Xbox leans into AI with Xbox Labs

The company aims to work with users as well as its own developers and engineers to make games and experiences stemming from the new AI-fueled creations.

Attendees walk past a gaming sign during the opening day of E3, the annual video games expo revealing the latest in gaming software and hardware in Los Angeles.

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Alex Stamos on Silicon Valley’s ‘nihilism,’ and the line between real AI risks and imagined ones

In the debut episode of Future Proof from Semafor Technology, Cognition CISO and former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos goes off on the “nihilism” ripping through Silicon Valley.

OpenAI’s new pricing tiers highlight compute bottleneck

Offering always-on, agentic assistant tools will cost OpenAI.

The real reason not to IPO

OpenAI and Anthropic were once essentially research laboratories, running on the thrill of innovation without the pressure of revenue models or Wall Street analysts.

Pacing the frontier is more about business models than AI models

Spending billions on a race to grow the biggest and most capable models may not be the best sales pitch.

Trump administration orders Kalshi to scrap AI price tracker over national security concerns

The futures market for computer power lets buyers and sellers lock in prices, and gives traders a way to bet on where those prices go.

How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment

Sensational headlines are overwhelming a serious conversation in Silicon Valley.

We have nothing to fear but AI fear itself

Blindly believing advocates who say AI could kill us means missing some real risks, like economic or societal destabilization as AI transforms how people work and communicate.

AI researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta

Tulloch has been delaying his departure until the company successfully launched its new family of open source AI models and AI assistant, Muse.

Meta launches Muse AI assistant

Think of it like a computer sitting on Meta’s servers that connects to and can control your email, your calendar, or your health information when you give it commands.

Trailer for Altman biopic misses the real drama

Turning a great startup drama into a Bond film (but without James Bond) is inherently less interesting than reality.

US needs nimble approach to technological governance

The new law comes as the feasibility of AI oversight is in question for being impossible and too expensive.

Astra kicks off AI monitoring debate

Astra appears to do less of its thinking out loud, giving researchers little insight into whether it might be hiding something or planning something it shouldn’t.