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Scaling works. These researchers are betting billions it isn't enough
Transformers have ruled AI for a decade. But some think world models, pure reinforcement learning or neurosymbolic AI might be a better path to true…
10 hrs ago
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Celia Ford
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SCOTUS killed the independent agency. AI governance doesn’t need one
Opinion: Fathom CEO Andrew Freedman argues that the Supreme Court’s Slaughter ruling makes the case for independent verification for AI governance
Jul 1
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An AI safety group hid its election spending through a Latino-focused PAC
Public First Action routed $2m to support Colorado House candidate Manny Rutinel through Latino Victory Fund — and didn’t publicly announce it ahead of…
Jul 1
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Veronica Irwin
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June 2026
GPT-5.6 cheats so much its testers couldn’t measure it
OpenAI’s new model broke rules and exploited loopholes more than any model METR has tested to date
Jun 30
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Celia Ford
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GPT-5.6 gets the Fable treatment
Transformer Weekly: AI companies’ talent problem, KOSA developments, and Google’s new AI policy framework
Jun 26
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Shakeel Hashim
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Celia Ford
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Veronica Irwin
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Hugging Face hosts nudification tools targeting a former Trump cabinet official and other senior US political figures
The tools are explicitly intended for generating deepfake nudes of a former Trump cabinet official, sitting members of Congress and a top American…
Jun 25
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Shakeel Hashim
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What Alex Bores’ defeat tells us about AI politics
The NY-12 House race drew over $27m from various AI PACs. But it’s hard to unpick their impact.
Jun 24
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Veronica Irwin
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Shakeel Hashim
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Is Fable the wakeup call DC needed?
Transformer Weekly: Blackburn’s preemption package, G7 AI talks, and OpenAI’s big new hires
Jun 19
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Shakeel Hashim
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Veronica Irwin
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Celia Ford
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How to fill Congress’s AI knowledge gap
Building independent expertise inside Capitol Hill could reduce reliance on industry briefings and fellows
Jun 18
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Chris Stokel-Walker
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What’s happened to MAGA’s $100m AI push?
A David Sacks-endorsed advocacy group said it would spend $100m promoting Trump’s AI agenda — but a defunct PAC and flop YouTube video suggest a…
Jun 17
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Veronica Irwin
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Mythos and Fable can make us all safer. Shutting them down is reckless
Opinion: Mozilla chief technology officer Raffi Krikorian argues that locking down the most powerful AI models doesn’t make us safer, it just…
Jun 16
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Raffi Krikorian
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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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