Policy

DeepSeek’s boss made the case for export controls

Transformer Weekly: Trahan and Obernolte bill, OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, and CAISI chief resigns

Jul 24 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

Don’t let independent AI audits provide a false sense of safety

Opinion: AI policy researcher Keller Scholl argues that a marketplace of AI auditors will always prioritize speed and cost over safety

Jul 9 • Keller Scholl

SCOTUS killed the independent agency. AI governance doesn’t need one

Opinion: Fathom CEO Andrew Freedman argues that the Supreme Court’s Slaughter ruling makes the case for independent verification for AI governance

Jul 1

An AI safety group hid its election spending through a Latino-focused PAC

Public First Action routed $2m to support Colorado House candidate Manny Rutinel through Latino Victory Fund — and didn’t publicly announce it ahead of…

Jul 1 • Veronica Irwin

GPT-5.6 gets the Fable treatment

Transformer Weekly: AI companies’ talent problem, KOSA developments, and Google’s new AI policy framework

Jun 26 • Shakeel Hashim, Celia Ford, and Veronica Irwin

What Alex Bores’ defeat tells us about AI politics

The NY-12 House race drew over $27m from various AI PACs. But it’s hard to unpick their impact.

Jun 24 • Veronica Irwin and Shakeel Hashim

Is Fable the wakeup call DC needed?

Transformer Weekly: Blackburn’s preemption package, G7 AI talks, and OpenAI’s big new hires

Jun 19 • Shakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia Ford

How to fill Congress’s AI knowledge gap

Building independent expertise inside Capitol Hill could reduce reliance on industry briefings and fellows

Jun 18 • Chris Stokel-Walker

What’s happened to MAGA’s $100m AI push?

A David Sacks-endorsed advocacy group said it would spend $100m promoting Trump’s AI agenda — but a defunct PAC and flop YouTube video suggest a…

Jun 17 • Veronica Irwin

Mythos and Fable can make us all safer. Shutting them down is reckless

Opinion: Mozilla chief technology officer Raffi Krikorian argues that locking down the most powerful AI models doesn’t make us safer, it just…

Jun 16 • Raffi Krikorian

Washington made a frontier AI model disappear

The AI licensing regime is here, but it’s not the one anyone asked for

Jun 13 • Shakeel Hashim

OpenAI isn’t being consistently candid about Leading the Future

OpenAI insists it doesn’t fund or direct LTF — but one of the super PAC’s operatives describes it as a “corporate funder” with “a say”

Jun 11 • Veronica Irwin

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