Gina Chua

New York

Executive Editor at Semafor

Executive Editor at global news startup @Semafor. Formerly @Reuters @SCMPNews @WSJ. Exploring new forms of journalism and where the profession is heading

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🟡 The year ahead | Semafor | Semafor

Jan 2, 2025 | semafor.com | Gina Chua

Anna Rose Layden/ReutersTrump will have a fleet of loyalists in next year’s Congress — but not everyone will fall in line. And it only takes a couple of House Republicans to tank a bill given their razor-thin majority. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who has considerable sway in the Freedom Caucus, warned he’ll oppose renewing Trump’s 2017 tax bill without significant spending cuts. Meanwhile, moderate Rep.
An AI polling startup makes its predictions for tomorrow’s races

Nov 4, 2024 | flipboard.com | Gina Chua

1 hour agoChinese AI firms are splurging on ads, report finds, as chatbot market gets crowdedTech giants such as Alibaba and ByteDance along with start-ups spent US$70.2 million in the third quarter to promote generative AI products, report …8 hours agoHow to replace Google with ChatGPT Search as your default search engineSo long, Google! ChatGPT Search is here, challenging Google's dominance in the search engine realm.
An AI polling startup makes its predictions for tomorrow’s races | Semafor

Nov 4, 2024 | semafor.com | Gina Chua

Young entrepreneurs who think their AI chatbots can model human behavior better than humans can agreed to put their model to the test in the 2024 election. We wrote about the two 19-year-old college dropouts, Cam Fink and Ned Koh, and Aaru, the company they co-founded with 15-year-old John Kessler, two months ago. They use census and other demographic data to create thousands of AI avatars of voters, each with hundreds of personality traits to model the humans they’re supposed to mimic.
An AI polling startup makes its predictions for the 2024 US election

Nov 4, 2024 | flipboard.com | Gina Chua

7 hours agoWhen the news hit last Tuesday, people started freaking out immediately and all my devices lit up. I had been driving, so when I finally stopped at a gas station, I checked my phone: “LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters.” Aw man, that’s it? I thought a …
Iran says it wants parties to live up to 2015 nuclear deal

Sep 23, 2024 | semafor.com | Gina Chua

Iran wants all parties to abide by the terms of the now-scuttled 2015 nuclear accord with the US and other major powers before discussing any new agreement, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday. “We are still ready to live up to the same framework,” he told a roundtable of journalists in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
News organizations undermine journalist groups, caving to Chinese pressure | Semafor

Jul 18, 2024 | semafor.com | Diego Mendoza |Gina Chua

A Wall Street Journal reporter’s firing in Hong Kong has revealed a quiet, intense battle between journalists in Asia and their employers over how to handle Chinese government pressure on independent media — and raised questions of whether big media organizations are undermining the groups that have long advocated for journalists in the region.
Semaforum with Maria Ressa: "Every time you personalize, you tear apart the public sphere." | Semafor

Apr 12, 2024 | semafor.com | Gina Chua

Semaforums are occasional short Q&As with authors and other interesting figures. Maria Ressa is the co-founder and CEO of the Philippine news site Rappler and winner of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, for “their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” She’s faced — and beaten — several criminal charges in the Philippines, although two are still pending.
Can AI count hate crimes? | Semafor

Feb 18, 2024 | semafor.com | Gina Chua

Can a machine mimic a human trying to mimic a machine better than a human can? Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Yes, and it matters — in particular to a kind of high-stakes, everyday journalism that mixes qualitative and quantitative assessments, and which I suspect is pretty much the last thing most editors would entrust to AI. Bear with me. Large Language Models like ChatGPT are often derided — accurately — for the way they embody our many human flaws: inexactness, inconsistency, fuzzy thinking.
Introducing Semafor Signals

Jan 26, 2024 | semafor.com | Ben Smith |Gina Chua

Semafor is launching a new, global multi-source breaking news feed called Signals, in which journalists, using tools from Microsoft and Open AI, offer readers diverse, sophisticated perspectives and insights on the biggest stories in the world as they develop. Signals responds to the deep and continuing shifts in the digital media landscape and the post-social news moment, and to the risks and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence.
How less, not more, data, could help journalism | Semafor

Dec 19, 2023 | semafor.com | Gina Chua |Semafor’s Liz Hoffman

The big news — albeit somewhat old news — is that large language models can work with small data. And that could be game-changing for journalism. I spent a weekend building some custom bots to explore how newsrooms could leverage generative AI to improve their work. TL;DR: I think there’s a lot of there there. To recap: LLMs are great at manipulating language — parsing questions, generating human-like prose, and engaging in conversation.