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Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching a school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy aimed at aspiring founders who have just graduated high school and have not yet attended college. The academy is aiming to train these high school grads with hands-on coursework

The News A global pullback in aid funding by the US and other wealthy nations has left the world with “more shocks, fewer shock absorbers,” International Rescue Committee President David Miliband said Tuesday at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion in New York. Some 700,000 people have l

Listen to this article in summarized format Barkin said inflation currently poses a greater threat than weakness in the labour market, explaining that this prompted the Fed to raise interest rates last week. He said the quarter-percentage-point increase “will help” return inflati

The News The Trump administration’s tit-for-tat tariff war threatens to split the global economy into hostile trading blocs, the head of the World Trade Organization warned on Tuesday. The effect could be a 7% hit to global GDP, she said. Speaking at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion

Beat the Switch 2 storage crisis with this $99 512GB microSD Express card — Amazon deal slashes 33% off high-performance Samsung P9 The flash shortage has driven up prices for nearly all consumer storage devices. Fortunately, for a limited time, Nintendo Switch 2 owners have a ra

S&P 500 futures are trading at all-time highs, but an aura of concern is lingering among investors trying to make sense of extremely low breadth in the U.S. stock market. On the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, 75 stocks made new 52-week lows, versus just 14 names making new high

Earlier this month, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, which it heralded as its most powerful and capable model yet, and the “world’s best model” for a variety of activities, including computer work and coding. Now, the lab is expanding the GPT-6 generation with updated versions of the

Take a drive in Texas on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas or I-20 between Fort Worth and El Paso, and you will see dozens and dozens of tractor trailers. They are two of the busiest highways in the country for trucks — and two routes where Aurora Innovation is operating c

Take a drive in Texas on Interstate 45 between Houston and Dallas or I-20 between Fort Worth and El Paso, and you will see dozens and dozens of tractor trailers. They are two of the busiest highways in the country for trucks — and two routes where Aurora Innovation is operating c

The Scoop Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is emerging as a frontrunner for President Donald Trump’s new “AI czar” position, three sources familiar with the matter told Semafor. Bessent has long played a central role in the Trump administration’s AI policy, and this week he’s alr

A curious dynamic is happening in shares of Nvidia ahead of two potential catalysts this month, and it's presenting an unique opportunity for options traders. As shares of the AI giant have surged, the stock's forward multiple, a measure of how expensive it is relative to the mar

Waymo will allow teenagers as young as 13 to use its robotaxi service in Nashville as the Alphabet-owned company looks to scale its business by reaching a new group of riders. Nashville is the second city to offer Waymo teen accounts; the company kicked off its teen account progr

President Donald Trump lashed out at a CNN journalist Tuesday morning at the United Nations, telling her, "You should not be here covering me," as the Department of Justice prepares to defend in federal court his ban on that media outlet, MS NOW and Politico from the White House.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to address the United Nations Security Council for a meeting about artificial intelligence this week, a U.N. spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue is also set to join, along with Yosh

I was on the fence about going to see the latest Resident Evil reboot to review, given how uninspired the prior reboot attempt in 2021 turned out to be. But director Zach Cregger gave us last year’s phenomenal Weapons, and early word of mouth was extremely positive, so I took a c

As large language model (LLM) inference increasingly processes sensitive information and proprietary model context across personal, enterprise, and regulated settings, data must be processed inside a trusted environment. NVIDIA Confidential Computing (CC) provides a pathway for r

Binance is investing $100 million in stablecoin issuer Circle as part of a five-year deal calling for the world's largest crypto exchange to promote Circle's flagship USDC on its platform. Shares of Circle rose more than 1% in premarket trading Tuesday. The agreement signals a pu

Binance is investing $100 million in stablecoin issuer Circle as part of a five-year deal calling for the world's largest crypto exchange to promote Circle's flagship USDC on its platform. Shares of Circle rose more than 1% in premarket trading Tuesday. The agreement signals a pu

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Nigeria’s trade minister on Tuesday described the country’s relationship with the US as “actually quite good” despite a 12.5% tariff Washington imposed on Nigerian exports in July as part of a broader action targeting 60 countries. “The US-Nigeria relationship is actually quite g

Toyota workers are already helping to train humanoid robots as part of the automaker’s race to eventually deploy 400,000 factory robots—but a Toyota executive said the robotic push is not meant to directly replace humans. Starting in 2028, the Toyota Motor group aims to start inv

Vector Search Is Now A Data Type, But The Money Math Has Not Gone Away For a few years it looked like every AI stack would carry a dedicated vector database next to its primary store (for the few who needed it). That moment has passed. Approximate nearest-neighbor search is now e

A “human error” in the IT department led to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) losing data from maternity records over an 11-year span. The data loss occurred on August 18, the English hospitals announced in a blog post on Monday spotted by The Register. The blog sai

The disruption from the Strait of Hormuz will yield a “structural shift” in the energy consumption of the billions of people who remain disconnected from the digital economy, Shell Foundation CEO Jonathan Berman said at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion on Tuesday. Forecasts estimate

'Looksmaxxing' influencer Clavicular charged with rape in Massachusetts - Published The online influencer Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, has been charged with rape, providing liquor to a person under the legal US drinking age, and drugging someone for sexual interc

AI - Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow downAnthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna - Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomo

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an “academy” positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The “Horowitz Andreessen Academy” will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Nvid

Durabook Z14I-DX3 rugged mobile workstation folds three screens into a 9.8 kg chassis — luggable targets military, emergency services, and field professionals Rugged computing goes really wide. Taiwan-based manufacturer Durabook has introduced a highly rugged mobile workstation w

Anthropic’s newest model, Opus 5.5, was released on Tuesday, setting a new state-of-the-art in coding and knowledge work performance, according to the company. Opus is the most capable and expensive tier in Anthropic’s three-tier Claude lineup; Sonnet sits in the middle, while Ha

Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company’s test

Last year, the Trump administration did what it could to shut down work on the next US National Climate Assessment, eliminating funding for the US Global Change Research Program and booting hundreds of contributing authors. The administration even took past reports offline, forci

Director-General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control Jean Kaseya said Tuesday that the continent should begin making vaccines locally, as the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak continues to have a huge impact on the economies of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda a