Industry

AI expansion may not be one big environmental problem. But it’ll be lots of smaller ones.

The effects of rapid AI development are likely to be minor compared to other sectors — but its true impact will be felt at the local level

Sep 17

The data center is a symbol

And for now, probably a pretty good one

Aug 21 • Dan Kagan-Kans

Will bets on the price of computing power help or harm the AI economy?

A multi-trillion-dollar market for hedging data center investments is being built. It could bring stability. It could also drive a crash

Aug 18 • Conrad Quilty-Harper

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

Internal AI deployments have people worried. OpenAI’s escaping models show why.

Last week illustrated why AI models pose a threat long before they are released

Jul 28 • 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

A Fable about the future of power

Transformer Weekly: Preemption’s child safety push, OpenAI’s pause preparations, and SpaceX’s IPO

Jun 12 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

Palantir’s controversy is the product

Palantir’s fiery rhetoric helps mystify its mostly mundane tech — propping up its share price and preserving its national security contracts

May 6 • James Ball

Google’s Pentagon deal blindsided its own AI researchers

Some employees are speaking out over the agreement allowing “all lawful use” of Google’s AI technologies

Apr 30 • Celia Ford

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