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Fox stays positive on data centers even as public backlash grows

More than half of the references to data centers on Fox News over the last two years would have left viewers with a favorable impression, according to a Semafor analysis.
A data center from above
Fred Greaves/Reuters

Hack reveals Netanyahu campaign’s media ties

The latest breach comes from the Whatsapp account of Netanyahu aide Jonatan Urich.
Benjamin Netanyahu
Amir Cohen/Reuters

ABC News offers contradictory explanation for vanishing Anduril story

Emails between ABC News and its subjects, provided to Semafor, show the network seeking to downplay its errors by misrepresenting its own processes.
Anduril
Toby Melville/Reuters

New Skydance CEO Kreiz will be Ellison’s enforcer

Investors are warily eying Skydance’s freshly downgraded debt, and layoffs are coming.
Ynon Kreiz speaking at a Semafor event.
Kris Tripplaar/Semafor

Marc Elias’ Democracy Docket sees Trump 2.0 success

One of the Democratic Party’s most prolific lawyers also is becoming one of its most prolific posters.

CEO’s podcast sparks tensions atop The Atlantic

Nicholas Thompson’s podcast, “The Most Interesting Thing in AI,” has been a source of friction at the magazine.
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Screenshot/YouTube/Nicholas Thompson

AI nonprofit will spend $10 million on journalism

A Silicon Valley nonprofit close to the AI safety movement is funding coverage of artificial intelligence.

Euractiv relaunches as ‘Rapporteur’ in Brussels

The newsroom, founded in 1999, has rebooted in recent years as a competitor to Politico Europe.

Beverage brand Liquid Death will make others’ ads

Liquid Death is one of the purest marketing stories of the moment: a billion-dollar company that sells the ultimate commodity through edgy comedy.

Trump battles press as Xi heads to town

A judge is expected to hear arguments in a lawsuit brought by the three news outlets the president banned from the White House last week.

Inside the US Treasury secretary’s tense relationship with financial media

Scott Bessent’s blacklist starts with Bloomberg.

Fertile ground

Flagship’s lead writer Tom Chivers says goodbye after four years.

Crooked Media’s nonprofit launches new political creator drive

The nonprofit arm of Pod Save America’s audio empire is hoping to lure younger voters back to the Democratic Party.

YouTube cracks down on ‘ghost creators’

The enforcement action targeted accounts named in Semafor’s report earlier this week.

Paid actors, AI writing: How a new kind of video business cashed in on America’s divided politics

‘Ghost creators’ are reaching millions of viewers with nearly identical, sensationalized videos that take aim at Democrats.

New Leon Black book picks fight with the Times

Bill Cohan’s new biography is aimed, in part, at rebutting The New York Times’ coverage of Black and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Axel Springer invests in Abu Dhabi-based outlet The Circuit

Axel Springer is latest Western publisher to take a greater editorial interest in the business story in the Middle East.

AI writing has already begun to appear on the opinion pages

About 10 — of 310 — contributions to The Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times over the past month appear to have been written by AI models.