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GPT-5’s botched launch has serious consequences
Transformer Weekly: Hawley investigates Meta, OpenAI lobbies Newsom, and the H20 drama continues
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Shakeel Hashim
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Jasper Jackson
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Donald Trump is making Chinese AI great again
Giving China access to advanced chips for a $2bn payoff is a bad deal for US security
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Shakeel Hashim
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GPT-5 is no slowdown
GPT-5 isn’t a big leap forward. But that does not tell us that AI progress is slowing down.
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Shakeel Hashim
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Jasper Jackson
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Does Zuck believe in superintelligence?
Transformer Weekly: H20 fights, OpenAI fundraising, and Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
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Shakeel Hashim

July 2025

UK launches £15 million AI alignment project
“Alignment is one of the most urgent technical challenges of our time,” the government said.
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Shakeel Hashim
Trump’s surprisingly OK AI Action Plan
Transformer Weekly: Chip smuggling, location verification, and Anthropic’s lobbying
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Shakeel Hashim
Why is Hugging Face hosting tools to make deepfake porn of teenage celebrities?
The “ethical” AI company is hosting models designed to make nonconsensual sexual content, despite clear breaches of its policies
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Shakeel Hashim
OpenAI hits the biorisk alarm with Agent
Transformer Weekly: China gets Nvidia chips, a preview of the AI Action Plan, and Sanders worries about AI risks
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Shakeel Hashim
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Jasper Jackson
What the EU code of practice actually requires
Transformer Weekly: SB 53’s revamp, Peter Kyle on AGI, and a movie about Ilya Sutskever
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Shakeel Hashim
Who really won the moratorium fight?
Transformer Weekly: Meta’s superintelligence team, Malaysia export controls, and EU AI Act implementation fights
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Shakeel Hashim

June 2025

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