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Washington made a frontier AI model disappear
The AI licensing regime is here, but it’s not the one anyone asked for
Jun 13
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Shakeel Hashim
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A Fable about the future of power
Transformer Weekly: Preemption’s child safety push, OpenAI’s pause preparations, and SpaceX’s IPO
Jun 12
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
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OpenAI isn’t being consistently candid about Leading the Future
OpenAI insists it doesn’t fund or direct LTF — but one of the super PAC’s operatives describes it as a “corporate funder” with “a say”
Jun 11
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Veronica Irwin
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Making deals with AI sounds crazy. Is it?
What does an AI even ‘want’ anyway?
Jun 8
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Celia Ford
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The best AI bill yet may not get far
Transformer Weekly: The Obernolte-Trahan AI Act, Trump’s executive order, and Anthropic discusses a pause
Jun 5
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
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Policy
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Washington made a frontier AI model disappear
The AI licensing regime is here, but it’s not the one anyone asked for
Jun 13
•
Shakeel Hashim
45
2
6
OpenAI isn’t being consistently candid about Leading the Future
OpenAI insists it doesn’t fund or direct LTF — but one of the super PAC’s operatives describes it as a “corporate funder” with “a say”
Jun 11
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Veronica Irwin
15
The best AI bill yet may not get far
Transformer Weekly: The Obernolte-Trahan AI Act, Trump’s executive order, and Anthropic discusses a pause
Jun 5
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Shakeel Hashim
,
Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
13
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Do voters care about existential AI risks? One Senate candidate thinks so
Democrat Mallory McMorrow has released an unusually detailed AI agenda. Will it be a vote winner?
Jun 4
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Veronica Irwin
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Industry
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A Fable about the future of power
Transformer Weekly: Preemption’s child safety push, OpenAI’s pause preparations, and SpaceX’s IPO
Jun 12
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
13
Palantir’s controversy is the product
Palantir’s fiery rhetoric helps mystify its mostly mundane tech — propping up its share price and preserving its national security contracts
May 6
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James Ball
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Google’s Pentagon deal blindsided its own AI researchers
Some employees are speaking out over the agreement allowing “all lawful use” of Google’s AI technologies
Apr 30
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Celia Ford
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The many contradictions of Jensen Huang
Transformer Weekly: Debate after Altman attacks, lots more money for AI PACs and AISI’s role in UK AI investment
Apr 17
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Shakeel Hashim
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Celia Ford
, and
Veronica Irwin
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Capabilities + Risks
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Making deals with AI sounds crazy. Is it?
What does an AI even ‘want’ anyway?
Jun 8
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Celia Ford
15
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GPT-5.5 and the broken state of government evals
Transformer Weekly: DeepSeek V4, a new CAISI director, and Liccardo holds out on Obernolte
Apr 24
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Shakeel Hashim
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Celia Ford
, and
Veronica Irwin
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Claude Mythos knows when it's breaking the rules — and tries to hide it
Anthropic’s new model is its “best-aligned” yet. But when it does misbehave, things get weird
Apr 8
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Celia Ford
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Can we ever trust AI to watch over itself?
“Who the fuck knows how to align superhuman AI?”
Apr 1
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Celia Ford
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Society
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What the Pope got wrong
For all the good in Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, it failed to grapple with the biggest questions
May 27
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Shakeel Hashim
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The new rules for killing a data center
A retired tech exec beat Microsoft in his Wisconsin village. Now he's teaching the rest of America how to do the same
May 21
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The AI safety movement needs normies
A broader base may be the only way for the AI safety field to get what it wants
Apr 27
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Celia Ford
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The key detail everyone’s getting wrong about AI and the economy
Opinion: Konrad Körding and Ioana Marinescu from the University of Pennsylvania argue artificial intelligence will likely have a limited impact on jobs…
Mar 25
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Opinion
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Less liability could solve the AI chatbot suicide problem
Opinion: Jess Miers and Ray Yeh argue holding AI companies liable for how they deal with mental health could backfire: escalating distress, shutting…
Apr 16
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The key detail everyone’s getting wrong about AI and the economy
Opinion: Konrad Körding and Ioana Marinescu from the University of Pennsylvania argue artificial intelligence will likely have a limited impact on jobs…
Mar 25
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Why we need a moratorium on superintelligence research
Opinion: As the AI community gathers in India, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath argues that the UK must spearhead a pause on the development of the world’s most…
Feb 17
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A false choice risks undermining action on autonomous weapons
Opinion: Alexander Blanchard of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute argues that nations must embrace nuance if they’re to effectively…
Jan 27
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Weekly Briefing
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A Fable about the future of power
Transformer Weekly: Preemption’s child safety push, OpenAI’s pause preparations, and SpaceX’s IPO
Jun 12
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Shakeel Hashim
,
Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
13
The best AI bill yet may not get far
Transformer Weekly: The Obernolte-Trahan AI Act, Trump’s executive order, and Anthropic discusses a pause
Jun 5
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Shakeel Hashim
,
Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
13
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The campaign to stop federal AI laws is backfiring
Transformer Weekly: SB 315, Anthropic’s mega valuation, and the Pope talks AI
May 29
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Shakeel Hashim
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Celia Ford
, and
Veronica Irwin
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The executive order debacle is bad news for AI
Transformer Weekly: Trump’s AI executive order, SpaceX’s IPO filing, and Lehane’s super PAC thoughts
May 22
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
, and
Celia Ford
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