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Against the METR graph
METR’s benchmark has become a bellwether of AI capability growth, but its design isn’t up to the task, argues Nathan Witkin
Jan 20
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Nathan Witkin
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Claude Code is about so much more than coding
It’s a general-purpose AI agent. And it’s already a pretty good knowledge worker
Jan 5
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Shakeel Hashim
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The unseen acceleration
Transformer Weekly: Sanders data center moratorium call, China's EUV lithography prototype and OpenAI chasing a $750b+ valuatio
Dec 19, 2025
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Shakeel Hashim
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Celia Ford
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AI is making dangerous lab work accessible to novices, UK’s AISI finds
UK AISI’s first Frontier AI Trends Report finds that AI models are getting better at self-replication, too
Dec 18, 2025
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Shakeel Hashim
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The very hard problem of AI consciousness
I spent a weekend at an AI welfare get together — and left with more questions than answers
Dec 16, 2025
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Celia Ford
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Why AI reading science fiction could be a problem
The theory that we’re accidentally teaching AI to turn against us
Dec 9, 2025
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Lynette Bye
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The perils of AI safety’s insularity
By building their own intellectual ecosystem, researchers worried about existential AI risk shed academia's baggage — and, perhaps, some of its…
Dec 4, 2025
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Celia Ford
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Claude can identify its ‘intrusive thoughts’
“I’m experiencing something that feels like an intrusive thought,” Claude said in a recent experiment
Nov 13, 2025
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Celia Ford
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AI doesn’t need to be general to be dangerous
There’s more to AI safety than the AGI debate
Nov 11, 2025
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Shakeel Hashim
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AI cyberrisk might be a bit overhyped — for now at least
Experts say key factors currently limit the risk of catastrophic harm from AI-enabled cyberattacks — as far as we know
Oct 20, 2025
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Chris Stokel-Walker
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AI is advancing far faster than our annual report can track
Opinion: Yoshua Bengio, Stephen Clare and Carina Prunkl run through the rapid developments that necessitated an early update to their International AI…
Oct 15, 2025
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AI and synthetic DNA could be a lethal combination
Stronger gene-synthesis screening is vital to closing off AI’s ability to enable man-made pandemics
Oct 13, 2025
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