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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
Trump’s surprisingly OK AI Action Plan
Transformer Weekly: Chip smuggling, location verification, and Anthropic’s lobbying
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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
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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Shakeel Hashim
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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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Shakeel Hashim
Can Alexandr Wang save Meta?
Transformer Weekly: More Republican moratorium opposition, the RAISE Act passes, and Altman’s ‘gentle singularity’.
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Shakeel Hashim
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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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Shakeel Hashim
AI unemployment discourse is heating up
Transformer Weekly: Amodei’s job warning, US AISI rebranding, and a new DeepSeek model
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Shakeel Hashim
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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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Shakeel Hashim
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