Industry

Anthropic employees say they’ll give away billions. Where will it go?

A coming wave of Anthropic wealth could flood EA-aligned nonprofits with cash. Whether that’s good depends on who you ask

Mar 12 • Celia Ford

What you need to know about autonomous weapons

The nascent tech that’s caused friction between AI companies and the Pentagon

Mar 4 • Celia Ford

The “guerilla warrior” who taught OpenAI to fight

Chris Lehane crushed crypto’s enemies. Now the self-described “master of disaster” is deploying the same playbook to advance OpenAI’s interests

Mar 3

OpenAI’s Pentagon red lines are a mirage

OpenAI claims its DoW deal prevents its models being used for mass domestic surveillance. That appears to be misleading at best

Mar 2 • Shakeel Hashim

The DoD fight is about much more than Anthropic

Are Google and OpenAI prepared to enable mass state surveillance?

Feb 24 • Shakeel Hashim

AI workers are speaking out about the Minnesota killing

Employees of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly criticizing the Trump administration after Saturday’s shooting — but their bosses are…

Jan 26 • Shakeel Hashim

The GOP consultancy at the heart of the industry’s AI fight

How a network of Targeted Victory alumni are campaigning against AI laws

Dec 18, 2025 • Shakeel Hashim

Can AI embrace whistleblowing?

As Anthropic prepares to publish its whistleblowing policy, can the industry make the most of protecting those who speak out?

Dec 2, 2025 • James Ball

The markets aren’t bracing for an AI crash — yet

Transformer Weekly: Blackwell chips and China, White House warning to pro-AI super pac, and OpenAI’s restructure

Oct 31, 2025 • Jasper Jackson and Celia Ford

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, 2025 • Celia Ford

Where have the really big AI models gone?

Why the race to scale up pretraining isn’t over

Oct 28, 2025 • Lynette Bye

OpenAI's descent into slop

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

Oct 3, 2025

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