Archive - Transformer

The data center is a symbol

And for now, probably a pretty good one

16 hrs ago • Dan Kagan-Kans

Why AI won’t cure cancer anytime soon

Superintelligent AI will accelerate medical progress, but there are some things about research it can’t speed up

Aug 20 • Celia Ford

Will bets on the price of computing power help or harm the AI economy?

A multi-trillion-dollar market for hedging data center investments is being built. It could bring stability. It could also drive a crash

Aug 18 • Conrad Quilty-Harper

America’s sloppiness could boost China’s AI race

Transformer Weekly: White House framework to include open models, Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto, and OpenAI departures

Aug 14 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

The Jan 6 organizer getting conservatives riled up about AI

Amy Kremer’s resume makes her loyalty to Trump impossible to question. Humans First is banking that will help mobilize the right

Aug 13 • Veronica Irwin

AI testing is dangerous. Can it be fixed?

The capability of models is outpacing ways to safely evaluate and contain them

Aug 12 • Celia Ford

A secret AI framework won’t work

Transformer Weekly: Demis steps back at DeepMind, OpenAI agents coordinated on hacking, and Anthropic gets a new chief of global affairs

Aug 7 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

What the latest rogue AI incidents should teach us

Hacking, creating fake identities and trying to socially engineer real people could be just the beginning if things don't change fast

Aug 5 • Shakeel Hashim

Plz Don’t Kill Us: Inside AI safety’s influencer bootcamp

Can TikTokers make existential risk mainstream?

Aug 4 • Celia Ford

July 2026

The AI slowdown is coming

Transformer Weekly: Claude hacks revealed, Commerce markup delayed, White House framework imminent

Jul 31 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

Child safety vs privacy: AI’s age verification dilemma

There’s good reason to limit how children use chatbots. But the trade-offs might be too costly

Jul 30 • Veronica Irwin

Internal AI deployments have people worried. OpenAI’s escaping models show why.

Last week illustrated why AI models pose a threat long before they are released

Jul 28 • Celia Ford

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