I just noticed the Freebase data available as one of the public datasets, so been wondering what happened to the Freebase team?

I liked what Freebase, DBpedia etc were doing few years ago with "semantic db's". I remember Freebase Gridworks being extremely useful for data cleanup. Haven't had a reason to follow the space...is it dead? Haven't seen much semantic talk off late. Where would one go to catch up on the latest news?