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The AI copyright question has no easy answers
Nobody can agree on how copyright should apply to AI — or if copyright is fit for purpose at all.
The worst (and funniest) AI takes of 2025
feat. Mark Zuckerberg, Gary Marcus, and ... ourselves.
 • Celia Ford
The 2025 Transformer Gift Guide
The best presents for the AI-obsessed people in your life.
 • Shakeel Hashim
Can the Pope spur meaningful action on AI?
AI safety advocates are hoping an unlikely ally can provide a rallying cry for guardrails and regulation
 • Julia Black
How the Catholic Church thinks about superintelligence
Opinion: Paolo Benanti, AI advisor to the Vatican and a professor of moral philosophy, argues that there is a moral imperative to ensure that artificial…
The unseen acceleration
Transformer Weekly: Sanders data center moratorium call, China's EUV lithography prototype and OpenAI chasing a $750b+ valuatio
 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford
The GOP consultancy at the heart of the industry’s AI fight
How a network of Targeted Victory alumni are campaigning against AI laws
 • Shakeel Hashim
AI is making dangerous lab work accessible to novices, UK’s AISI finds
UK AISI’s first Frontier AI Trends Report finds that AI models are getting better at self-replication, too
 • Shakeel Hashim
The very hard problem of AI consciousness
I spent a weekend at an AI welfare get together — and left with more questions than answers
 • Celia Ford
We’re in the dumbest timeline
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches
 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford
New York’s governor is trying to turn the RAISE Act into an SB 53 copycat
EXCLUSIVE: Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing to strike the entire text of the RAISE Act, replacing it with verbatim language from SB 53, sources tell…
When high scores don’t mean high intelligence: how to build better benchmarks
Opinion: Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute argue that lessons from social sciences can help us better assess the capabilities of AI
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