Weekly Briefing

AI governance is coming, with or without Trump

Transformer Weekly: UN talks AI, OpenAI hacks Australia, and midterm spending heats up

Sep 25 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

Trump’s AI stance is politically toxic

Transformer Weekly: OpenAI gets hacked, US-China talks, and AI R&D gets automated

Sep 18 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

Congress must not waste the AI policy window

Transformer Weekly: Hawley and Bonta investigate OpenAI, Khanna’s mea culpa, and a new Dem AI PAC

Sep 11 • Shakeel Hashim and Celia Ford

Congress goes quiet as AI safety concerns mount

Transformer Weekly: More rogue OpenAI agents, GPT-6 Astra, and Bernie’s superintelligence ban

Sep 4 • Veronica Irwin

Think people hate AI now? Wait until it takes their jobs

Transformer Weekly: Anthropic’s $100b IPO raise, frontier self-regulation EO and Hugging Face hack investigation

Aug 28 • Jasper Jackson, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

America’s sloppiness could boost China’s AI race

Transformer Weekly: White House framework to include open models, Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto, and OpenAI departures

Aug 14 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

A secret AI framework won’t work

Transformer Weekly: Demis steps back at DeepMind, OpenAI agents coordinated on hacking, and Anthropic gets a new chief of global affairs

Aug 7 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

The AI slowdown is coming

Transformer Weekly: Claude hacks revealed, Commerce markup delayed, White House framework imminent

Jul 31 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

Kimi K3 is no reason for China panic

Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei’s $1m to safety super PAC

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

AI-driven inflation is a political opportunity

Transformer Weekly: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5 and AI 2040

Jul 10 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

GPT-5.6 gets the Fable treatment

Transformer Weekly: AI companies’ talent problem, KOSA developments, and Google’s new AI policy framework

Jun 26 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

Is Fable the wakeup call DC needed?

Transformer Weekly: Blackburn’s preemption package, G7 AI talks, and OpenAI’s big new hires

Jun 19 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

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