Weekly Briefing

The executive order debacle is bad news for AI

Transformer Weekly: Trump’s AI executive order, SpaceX’s IPO filing, and Lehane’s super PAC thoughts

May 22 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

Is OpenAI changing its tune on AI laws?

Transformer Weekly: US-China talks, AI executive order, and Anthropic’s $900b valuation

May 15 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

Government control of AI has begun

Transformer Weekly: Cruz’s latest messaging bill, Google employee outrage, and Elon goes to court

May 1 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

GPT-5.5 and the broken state of government evals

Transformer Weekly: DeepSeek V4, a new CAISI director, and Liccardo holds out on Obernolte

Apr 24 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

The many contradictions of Jensen Huang

Transformer Weekly: Debate after Altman attacks, lots more money for AI PACs and AISI’s role in UK AI investment

Apr 17 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

The Pentagon is already suffering the consequences of banning Anthropic

Transformer Weekly: The battle for Gottheimer, OpenAI’s ‘New Deal’, and Meta’s new model

Apr 10

AI populism's safety problem

Transformer Weekly: OpenAI buys TBPN, Cantwell’s open to negotiations, and SpaceX’s mega IPO

Apr 3 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

The two fronts in the OpenAI and Anthropic battle

Transformer Weekly: New Claude Mythos model details leaked, Anthropic wins injunction against DoD blacklisting and conservative groups form AI alliance

Mar 27 • Jasper Jackson, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

The fuse is lit on the intelligence explosion

Transformer Weekly: Anthropic sues the Pentagon, Cruz preps AI legislation, and Meta delays its next LLM

Mar 13 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

What the first AI elections tell us

Transformer Weekly: The AI Campaign Finance Tracker, DoD vs Anthropic, and Commerce vs White House

Mar 6 • Veronica Irwin and Celia Ford

The end of voluntary pauses

Transformer Weekly: Anthropic vs the Pentagon, Trump’s power pledge, and Meta’s chip deals

Feb 27 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

The White House’s risky war on the Utah AI bill

Transformer Weekly: Kratsios in India, Anthropic vs the Pentagon and new Meta super PACs

Feb 20 • Veronica Irwin, Celia Ford, and Shakeel Hashim

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