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After founders flee hot French AI startup, new CEO wants to steady the ship — and scale like Palantir

Former Palantir director Gautier Cloix, who replaced Charles Kantor as CEO of H Company last month, speaks publicly for the first time.
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NYU researchers develop system to track damaged cells with AI

Having more information on human cells can help researchers understand how cancers and other illnesses form, potentially contributing to new therapies.
A skin cell.Torsten Wittmann, University of California, San Francisco/NIH Image Gallery/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0

Tech titans rebuke Sequoia partner for ‘anti-Muslim rhetoric’

Some of the Gulf’s top entrepreneurs added their signatures to an open letter condemning remarks made by Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire.
The offices of Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, Calif. Isriya Paireepairit/Flickr/CC BY-NC 2.0

AI startup Polimorphic raises $18.6 million for local government chatbots

The New York-based company aims to lighten the administrative workload for understaffed municipalities.
Members of the Polimorphic team with customer in Pineville, NCPolimorphic team with customers in Pineville, North Carolina. Courtesy Polimorphic

As EU cracks down on AI, CEOs at Paris Summit say it’s the wrong move

Paddy Srinivasan, DigitalOcean CEO, told Semafor companies need three to five years to innovate before governments should step in.
DigitalOcean CEO Paddy Srinivasan sits with Reed Albergotti Coutesy RAISE

Microsoft teams up with startup Replit to help businesses jump on vibe coding craze

The deal gives Replit a new conduit to Microsoft’s customer base, while the software giant can enable customers to build applications using natural language.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad speaking at a Semafor event.Chris Tuite Photography/Semafor

How AI can spur a rebirth of media

The advent of AI and the related media shakeup brings a huge opportunity for entrepreneurship in local and niche publishing.

Body art shops begin to offer tattoos powered by AI

An AI-powered device draws tattoos using a needle attached to a robot arm and computer vision that measures the recipient’s skin.

OpenAI warns against tokenized stock offered by Robinhood

The trading platform announced it would give some users €5 “stock tokens” that track the private-market values of OpenAI and SpaceX.

New AI model aims to mimic human decision-making

Dubbed Centaur, the model was trained on 160 psychology studies involving 60,000 participants making more than 10 million choices while completing different tasks, like memory games, gambling, and problem solving.

Meta’s new hires offer a peek into superintelligence plans

The résumés of new hires suggest Meta is working on models with reasoning capabilities to more directly take on OpenAI’s suite of products.

Chinese humanoid robots play soccer for the first time

Four teams of robots faced off in a first-of-its-kind, fully autonomous soccer tournament in Beijing, showcasing China’s robotics prowess against the US.

Tech investments reach $200B in Q2 in steady recovery

The increase follows a jump in the first quarter as AI investing picks up, helping the industry recover from a two-year slowdown.

US Senate kills ban on state AI regulation

The measure was a top priority for tech firms who argued a patchwork of local laws hinders their ability to innovate and compete with China.

Apple looks to AI firms to power Siri: Report

The iPhone maker has asked to train versions of Claude and ChatGPT that could run on Apple infrastructure for testing.

Tech companies are missing revenue as 97% of consumers use AI for free: report

A report from Menlo Ventures assumes that if the 1.8 billion AI users paid a $20 average monthly subscription, the market should be $432 billion — not today’s mere $12 billion.

AI usage in jobs could lead to AI ‘trade schools,’ expert says

These schools could teach students how to apply the new tech to their specific career interests, the chief AI scientist at career coaching platform BetterUp said.

Anthropic launches new effort to study AI’s economic impact

CEO Dario Amodei has warned of massive job losses because of AI and hopes research will help the world prepare.