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Ben Smith

@semaforben
85 posts
2026-02-12
OpenAI goes to war — @ReedAlbergotti scoop https://www.semafor.com/...
2026-02-12 View on X
Semafor

OpenAI says the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among OpenAI employees

@ReedAlbergotti scoop https://www.semafor.com/...Miles Brundage /@miles_brundage:@AndrewCurran_ Update: OpenAI is the second to give in here. Not surprising but worth tracking - th...

OpenAI goes to war — @ReedAlbergotti scoop https://www.semafor.com/...
2026-02-12 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions

The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available …

2026-02-11
OpenAI goes to war — @ReedAlbergotti scoop https://www.semafor.com/...
2026-02-11 View on X
Semafor

OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees

THE SCOOP  —  OpenAI's announcement Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT came after months of deliberation …

2026-01-22
Scoop: China appears to have signed off on the TikTok deal, to be announced imminently https://www.semafor.com/...
2026-01-22 View on X
Semafor

Sources: the US and China have approved the sale of TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week

The US and China have signed off on a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a consortium of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake …

2025-09-09
I wrote about David Sacks' surprising success in Trump's Washington [image]
2025-09-09 View on X
Semafor

How David Sacks emerged as the most effective advocate for tech, crypto, and AI in the Trump administration, using his tech expertise and All-In co-host status

The care with which David Sacks tracks his days in Washington has been described to me, variously, as matching the focus … X: @davemcclure , @reedalbergotti , and @semaforben X: Da...

2025-09-01
Big chip scoop https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-09-01 View on X
Semafor

Source: G42 is talking to Google, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI to become tenants at its UAE-US AI Campus, and aims to diversify chip suppliers beyond Nvidia

THE SCOOP  —  Abu Dhabi-backed G42 is still negotiating with major American technology firms — with no agreements yet …

2025-05-31
.@ReedAlbergotti scoop on the politics of AI https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-05-31 View on X
Semafor

Sources: Anthropic has been lobbying Congress to oppose a bill banning states from regulating AI, and pushed against the recent US AI deal with Gulf states

THE SCOOP  —  Anthropic is going toe-to-toe with the Trump Administration on artificial intelligence policy …

2025-05-20
Fascinating note from Microsoft's CTO, who tells @ReedAlbergotti his conversations with engineers are “so goddamn boring” [image]
2025-05-20 View on X
BleepingComputer

Microsoft open sources the Windows Subsystem for Linux, launched in August 2016, and releases its code on GitHub, except for a few Windows-specific components

Microsoft has open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), making its source code available on GitHub, except for a few components that are part of Windows.

Fascinating note from Microsoft's CTO, who tells @ReedAlbergotti his conversations with engineers are “so goddamn boring” [image]
2025-05-20 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI agents, MCP, web search, NLWeb, the relationship with OpenAI, how new hardware and optimizations benefit AI, and more

www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...  [image] X: Dan Shipper / @danshipper : Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott compares MCP to HTTP Dan Shipper / @danshipper : Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott says t...

2025-04-28
Don't quite see what the problem is here, or why he assumes I think his texts are a scandal, but appreciate the coming attractions plug [image]
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

Sidebar: Nobody can believe how much time Andreessen spends on the chats: [image]
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

The last/biggest group is Chatham House, and the story includes some of the texture of that — in part, a forum for arguing with @mcuban — and the new strains amid growing skepticism of Trump, which led to David Sacks' outburst. [image]
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

The central figure in this network is a16z's Marc Andressen. In 2020, a16z's @sriramk (now the White House AI adviser) set up an elite tech chat called “Build"for Andreessen, then dozens more in tech verticals. Other chats were more political, including some Signal chats
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

Does make me a bit sad the degree to which very smart tech figures sometimes just demonstrably misunderstand what reporters are trying to do. Not entirely unlike the way much of journalism has misread tech and entrepreneurs' worldview
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

@JTLonsdale @balajis I genuinely don't understand why you're engaging this way with a polite request that goes out of its way to say that I don't think those texts reflect anything you wouldn't say in public, and inquires about an influential thing you've been part of. I guess - if you'd prefer to
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

Andreessen in 2022 asked @RichardHanania to set up a group with smart conservatives, where Hanania says he saw Andreessen radicalize; Andreessen's friends say it was Hanania's politics that shifted. [image]
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

I hope you'll check out my story tonight on the sprawling, private network of group chats that began in 2020 as a place for Silicon Valley leaders to talk candidly, away from progressive-leaning social media, and are now the dark matter that shapes American media and politics.
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

One chat include Harpers Letter liberals like Thomas Chatterton Williams. That one blew up in 2021 when he and Kmele Foster published an oped critical of the right's efforts to crack down on teaching critical race theory.
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

2025-04-24
Bannon wants a DOGE audit https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-04-24 View on X
Financial Times

Elon Musk is stepping back from DOGE in May, spending 1-2 days per week on government work, as tariffs, customer anger, and Chinese competition weigh on Tesla

Billionaire's foray into government coincided with increased competition from Chinese rivals  —  In the days following Donald …

2025-04-15
How Trumpworld sees Meta
2025-04-15 View on X
New York Times

FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp

How is this even a question! [image] Kyung Sook / @kyungsookl : I didn't understand why facebook suddenly reversed course, allowed DJT to return to facebook and Zuckerberg attended...