Industry

What you need to know about the OpenAI restructure

Negotiations have seen safeguards and concessions built in, but questions remain about how effective they’ll be, and how fair the deal is

Oct 29 •

Where have the really big AI models gone?

Why the race to scale up pretraining isn’t over

Oct 28 •

OpenAI's descent into slop

Transformer Weekly: Newsom signs SB 53, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and a Hawley/Blumenthal evals bill

Oct 3

Insurance might be the key to making AI secure

Opinion: Cristian Trout, Rajiv Dattani and Rune Kvist argue that insurance can help reward responsible development of AI.

Sep 24

Don’t fall for China’s chip propaganda

Transformer Weekly: Anthropic in DC, an AI-designed virus, and If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Sep 19 •

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Chip location verification is the new export control battleground

The Chip Security Act proposes a way to tackle chip smuggling. Semiconductor companies don’t seem to like it.

Sep 9 •

Bubbles can still change the world

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

Aug 22 •

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Anthropic’s piracy could make its copyright battle existential

Anthropic could have to pay billions in damages — and others may follow

Aug 19 •

GPT-5’s botched launch has serious consequences

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

Aug 15 •

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Does Zuck believe in superintelligence?

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

Aug 1 •

Why is Hugging Face hosting tools to make deepfake porn of teenage celebrities?

The “ethical” AI company is hosting models designed to make nonconsensual sexual content, despite clear breaches of its policies

Jul 23 •

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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