Weekly Briefing

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

Alex Bores wants to fix Dems’ AI problem

Transformer Weekly: Anthropic’s political donations, energy bills policy, and an xAI exodus

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

Transformer Weekly: New models, a Super Bowl ad fight, and Obernolte’s being sidelined

Feb 6 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

Dario Amodei’s warnings don’t add up

Transformer Weekly: H200 approvals, a new California PAC, and OpenAI preps an IPO

Jan 30 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

AI CEOs want to slow down. The world’s too busy to help

Transformer Weekly: Obernolte’s big AI bill, Altman’s fundraising efforts, and Mast v Sacks

Jan 23 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

The AI midterm races to watch

Transformer Weekly: Meta’s Trump hire, Murati’s implosion, and the never-ending Grok saga

Jan 16 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

Why hasn’t anyone stopped Grok?

Transformer Weekly: China’s H200 plans, the plot to oust Ro Khanna, and research turmoil at OpenAI

Jan 9 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

Nine AI predictions for 2026

Will the bubble pop? Will AI dominate the midterms? Will Sam Altman snap?

Jan 2 • Shakeel Hashim, Jasper Jackson, and Celia Ford

The unseen acceleration

Transformer Weekly: Sanders data center moratorium call, China's EUV lithography prototype and OpenAI chasing a $750b+ valuatio

Dec 19, 2025 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

We’re in the dumbest timeline

Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches

Dec 12, 2025 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

The problem with DeepSeek

Transformer Weekly: Preemption’s out the NDAA, OpenAI’s ‘code red,’ and Anthropic’s IPO prep

Dec 5, 2025 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

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