Industry

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

The many contradictions of Jensen Huang

Transformer Weekly: Debate after Altman attacks, lots more money for AI PACs and AISI’s role in UK AI investment

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

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