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Reed Albergotti

@reedalbergotti
146 posts
2026-03-05
Anthropic came up during a recent meeting between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Secretary Hegseth. But the conversation didn't go as you'd expect. Despite Anthropic being perhaps Amazon's most important partner right now ... Hegseth didn't defense the company. More below.
2026-03-05 View on X
Reuters

Sources: some Anthropic investors push it to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the “supply-chain risk” designation; ITIC industry group expressed concerns

Anthropic came up during a recent meeting between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Secretary Hegseth. But the conversation didn't go as you'd expect. Despite Anthropic being perhaps Amazon's most important partner right now ... Hegseth didn't defense the company. More below.
2026-03-05 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models

Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology

Anthropic came up during a recent meeting between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Secretary Hegseth. But the conversation didn't go as you'd expect. Despite Anthropic being perhaps Amazon's most important partner right now ... Hegseth didn't defense the company. More below.
2026-03-05 View on X
The Information

Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump”

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …

2026-03-04
Anthropic came up during a recent meeting between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Secretary Hegseth. But the conversation didn't go as you'd expect. Despite Anthropic being perhaps Amazon's most important partner right now ... Hegseth didn't defense the company. More below.
2026-03-04 View on X
Reuters

Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the “supply-chain risk” designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue

Anthropic came up during a recent meeting between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Secretary Hegseth. But the conversation didn't go as you'd expect. Despite Anthropic being perhaps Amazon's most important partner right now ... Hegseth didn't defense the company. More below.
2026-03-04 View on X
Washington Post

Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran

2025-09-25
Interesting story from our Africa bureau on what ever happened to those African data centers that everyone was so excited about just a year ago. They may not happen at all: https://www.semafor.com/... cc @Techmeme
2025-09-25 View on X
Semafor

How a Microsoft-backed $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya faced construction delays due to uncertainty over its value for local businesses

Semafor : X: @reedalbergotti . LinkedIn: Alexis Akwagyiram X: Reed Albergotti / @reedalbergotti : Interesting story from our Africa bureau on what ever happened to those African d...

2025-09-09
ICYMI, read this article on @DavidSacks, the rare Silicon Valley player who is backward compatible with DC. (@altcap also in this category). @semaforben clearly lays out why. https://www.semafor.com/...
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...

2025-08-29
On the @microsoft MAI model news today, @mustafasuleyman let me record our interview this morning because there's a lot of insight you can't fit into a news article: https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-08-29 View on X
Semafor

Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview

On Thursday, Microsoft announced two powerful AI models it built that it says perform at the level of the world's top offerings …

Had a really interesting conversation with @mustafasuleyman this morning about @Microsoft's unveiling of new frontier models, MAI-1-preview and MAI-voice-1 and what the future holds for Microsoft AI. https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-08-29 View on X
Semafor

Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1, a speech model that can generate a full minute of audio in under a second on a single GPU, and a text model called MAI-1-preview

On Thursday, Microsoft announced two powerful AI models it built that it says perform at the level of the world's top offerings …

2025-06-01
Scoop: @mattppal at @Replit filed what is likely a first-of-its-kind “vibe coding” CVE. Details issues with @lovable_dev, a fast-growing vibe coding startup that lets you create web apps with just a prompt. Vibe coding sec is going to be a huge issue https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-06-01 View on X
Semafor

A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users

A vulnerability exists in deployed Lovable-generated projects due … Matt Palmer / Matt's Website : Statement on CVE-2025-48757  —  On March 20th, 2025, we discovered a critical vul...

I don't think people really get what's about to happen because of vibe coding. @johnrushx just reviewed 46! AI coding agents. There's going to be a software explosion and the security industry hasn't caught up. cc @TechmemeChatter https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-06-01 View on X
Semafor

A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users

A vulnerability exists in deployed Lovable-generated projects due … Matt Palmer / Matt's Website : Statement on CVE-2025-48757  —  On March 20th, 2025, we discovered a critical vul...

2025-05-31
I don't think people really get what's about to happen because of vibe coding. @johnrushx just reviewed 46! AI coding agents. There's going to be a software explosion and the security industry hasn't caught up. cc @TechmemeChatter https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-05-31 View on X
Semafor

A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users

THE SCOOP  —  Lovable, the popular vibe coding app that describes itself as the fastest-growing company in Europe …

Scoop: @mattppal at @Replit filed what is likely a first-of-its-kind “vibe coding” CVE. Details issues with @lovable_dev, a fast-growing vibe coding startup that lets you create web apps with just a prompt. Vibe coding sec is going to be a huge issue https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-05-31 View on X
Semafor

A Replit employee details a critical security flaw in web apps created using AI-powered app builder Lovable that exposes API keys and personal info of app users

THE SCOOP  —  Lovable, the popular vibe coding app that describes itself as the fastest-growing company in Europe …

Sccop(s): 1. @AnthropicAI has been lobbying against a federal bill that would preempt state AI laws. 2. The Trump Administration is angry about it. 3. One of Anthropic's advisors is Ben Buchanan, central player on Biden AI/diffusion. 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 …

2025-01-25
The next phase of the AI race is about inference and Google's light chips could give it an edge. https://www.semafor.com/...
2025-01-25 View on X
Big Technology

An interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on why he doesn't believe we will have AGI in 2025, putting Google's assistants in smart glasses, and more

Just a bunch of engineers and MBAs refusing to read their opponents. Tim Moss / @tdmoss : Really interesting.  Much more realistic take on both timing and definition of AGI [embedd...

2024-09-26
Nobody's giving billions to OpenAI out of the goodness of their heart. Long term, they want insane profits and they want its CEO to have a financial incentive to succeed (even if Altman himself would work for free). The non-profit structure hasn't made sense for a while now.
2024-09-26 View on X
CNBC

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she is leaving the company after 6.5 years “because I want to create the time and space to do my own exploration”

- OpenAI's board is considering plans to restructure the firm to a for-profit business … OpenAI's board is considering plans …

2024-07-25
Word is that Peter Thiel was in DC as of yesterday. Going to be interesting to watch how Silicon Valley starts to make moves now that Harris is VP
2024-07-25 View on X
Politico

Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris could provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington, DC, toward Big Tech companies

2024-07-24
Word is that Peter Thiel was in DC as of yesterday. Going to be interesting to watch how Silicon Valley starts to make moves now that Harris is VP
2024-07-24 View on X
Politico

Some in Silicon Valley hope Kamala Harris could provide a chance for a reset, after years of bipartisan criticism in Washington DC toward Big Tech companies

Would she bring continuity with Joe Biden's policies?  A more centrist vibe?  A sharper progressive bite?

2024-06-15
What happens when Mustafa Suleyman peers under the hood at OpenAI's code. All part of the unusual friend/competitor relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI - https://www.semafor.com/...
2024-06-15 View on X
Semafor

Sources: Mustafa Suleyman's presence at Microsoft is causing some awkwardness with OpenAI, as he looks at the algorithms behind models like GPT-4

Reed Albergotti / Semafor :

2024-06-13
@EricNewcomer @semafor I said clearly that perplexity should have credited them higher up. I just don't think the Forbs people had to go for the jugular like that. I think twitter brings out the worst in people sometimes. A civil conversation would get more done.
2024-06-13 View on X
Semafor

AI search engine Perplexity says it was working on revenue-sharing deals with publishers when Forbes staff accused it of plagiarizing Forbes' White Stork scoop

The Scoop  —  Perplexity, the AI search startup that recently came under fire from Forbes for allegedly misusing its content …