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Reporting on AI and the future of the economy. CS masters degree from Princeton. Subscribe to my newsletter (Understanding AI) and podcast (AI Summer)!
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By Timothy B. Lee 
| Understanding AI
Hello paying subscribers! Today is a big day here at Understanding AI headquarters: it’s Kai’s first day as an Understanding AI employee. Until Friday, his work was supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. Now I’m paying his salary, which means that your subscription dollars are making his work possible.
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Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos

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By Kai Williams, Timothy B. Lee 
| Understanding AI
Last October, Waymo had begun testing its freeway capability, but the company had not yet rolled it out to all vehicles. On a rainy Saturday morning, a routing error caused a Waymo vehicle not qualified for freeway operation to drive onto US 101 just south of the Golden Gate Bridge. Unable to continue, the vehicle stopped in the right lane about 30 meters past the entrance ramp (there was no shoulder). This screenshot from Google Maps shows the view looking backward from the stopped Waymo.
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OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video app

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By Timothy B. Lee 
| Understanding AI
When Kai and I wrote our 2026 predictions post last December, we disagreed about the future of AI video. I thought a recent deal with Disney would help to make OpenAI’s Sora the leading AI video app. Kai disagreed.
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