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Washington is waking up to AGI
Transformer Weekly: A very AGI-pilled Congressional hearing; moratorium machinations; and a bunch of copyright developments.
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Tech's scared of the RAISE Act
Transformer Weekly: The RAISE Act, the RISE Act, and a whole lot of lobbying
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Can Alexandr Wang save Meta?
Transformer Weekly: More Republican moratorium opposition, the RAISE Act passes, and Altman’s ‘gentle singularity’.
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The moratorium fight continues
Transformer Weekly: MTG vs. Skynet, AISI becomes CAISI, and Bengio’s new org
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AI unemployment discourse is heating up
Transformer Weekly: Amodei’s job warning, US AISI rebranding, and a new DeepSeek model
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The flywheels are spinning
Transformer Weekly: Automated AI R&D, a regulatory moratorium, and deals with the Middle East
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Who will ‘control’ OpenAI?
Transformer Weekly: OpenAI’s for-profit plans, Fidji Simo’s new role, and the end of the diffusion rule
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The dangers of sycophancy
Transformer Weekly: GPT-4o rollback, changes to the diffusion rule, and the US fights the EU AI Act
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I summarised the AI Action Plan comments for you
Transformer Weekly: OpenAI for-profit shenanigans, AI updates from Google’s antitrust trial, and a House CCP Committee report on DeepSeek
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Google breaks its promises
Where's Gemini 2.5 Pro's system card?
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California’s surprisingly good AI policy report
Transformer Weekly: California report on frontier AI risks, a new AI benchmark, and more Action Plan comments
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What AI companies want from Trump
Transformer Weekly: AI Action Plan responses, new EU COP draft, and preparing for an intelligence explosion
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