Julia Staley

Semafor | Former @DJNF Biz Reporting | Hoya Saxa

[Semafor @semafor]

🟡 Semafor today launched Semafor Intelligence, a new AI-enabled editorial insight product that transforms the full onstage record of Semafor’s global convenings into evidence-backed analysis — capturing the views of the world’s most consequential decision-makers, the debates shaping their thinking, and forward-looking signals.

The first edition draws on Semafor World Economy 2026, where more than 500 CEOs, policymakers, and G20 leaders gathered in Washington, DC, to discuss the forces shaping the new world economy.

To produce it, Semafor developed a proprietary AI tool that analyzes the full onstage record of each convening, identifying key claims, topics, stances, and supporting evidence, then linking each finding back to the relevant speaker, session, transcript, and video moment. Semafor’s editorial team then distilled the strongest patterns into the sharpest insights. Each published theme combines transcript-backed analysis, speaker moments, citations, and a journalist’s view on why the signal matters.

Semafor Intelligence findings from Semafor World Economy 2026 tell the story of The Chokepoint Economy — the consensus among leaders that the promise of globalization has given way to concentrated power and risk, and that resilience is now the organizing principle of the new world economy. Across nine themes, the report surfaces where consensus is forming, where it is fracturing, and where the prevailing views may be dangerously wrong.

[Semafor @semafor]

🟡 Semafor is launching a new initiative: Silicon Valley & The World, bringing together leaders building artificial intelligence and other breakthrough technologies with leaders responsible for shaping the strategies, policies, and institutions around them.

Co-Chaired by Divesh Makan, @satyanadella, Jensen Huang, Ruth Porat, and @LisaSu, the inaugural gathering will convene leading technology CEOs, senior government officials, and global financial leaders in Silicon Valley in November.

[SemaforComms @SemaforComms]

🟡@semafor biz & finance ed @lizrhoffman joins @JonLemire on @Morning_Joe to discuss the latest from Semafor World Economy, including her conversation with USTR Jamieson Greer about American China policy and a headline-making interview with acting AG Todd Blanche.

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

Semafor Co-Founders @Justin_B_Smith & @semaforben discuss the current state of media: https://t.co/fqOfXtVhtV

[Jorge Mercado @Merk_43]

In May, QAD told us they would be selling its 29-acre SB property. Now, we know the buyer. UC Investments branch purchased the space for $104 million. Story written alongside @BT_Holland with additional coverage from our wonderful intern @juliastaley6 🫡: https://t.co/73X5dWsLZu