Weekly Briefing

What Ted Cruz’s SANDBOX Act would actually do

Transformer Weekly: OpenAI restructuring, Altman and Huang in the UK, and AI hunger strikes

Sep 12 •

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SB 53 might actually pass

Transformer Weekly: OpenAI subpoenas, Anthropic funding and Google unscathed

Sep 5 •

AI’s child safety failures are becoming unignorable

Transformer Weekly: Sriram Krishnan on AGI, Meta’s talent drain, and Huawei’s chip production

Aug 29 •

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Bubbles can still change the world

Transformer Weekly: H20 drama, Meta restructuring, and lots of xAI screwups

Aug 22 •

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GPT-5’s botched launch has serious consequences

Transformer Weekly: Hawley investigates Meta, OpenAI lobbies Newsom, and the H20 drama continues

Aug 15 •

and

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.

Aug 8 •

and

Does Zuck believe in superintelligence?

Transformer Weekly: H20 fights, OpenAI fundraising, and Gemini 2.5 Deep Think

Aug 1 •

Trump’s surprisingly OK AI Action Plan

Transformer Weekly: Chip smuggling, location verification, and Anthropic’s lobbying

Jul 25 •

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

Jul 18 •

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What the EU code of practice actually requires

Transformer Weekly: SB 53’s revamp, Peter Kyle on AGI, and a movie about Ilya Sutskever

Jul 11 •

Who really won the moratorium fight?

Transformer Weekly: Meta’s superintelligence team, Malaysia export controls, and EU AI Act implementation fights

Jul 4 •

Washington is waking up to AGI

Transformer Weekly: A very AGI-pilled Congressional hearing; moratorium machinations; and a bunch of copyright developments.

Jun 27 •

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