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Trump’s AI stance is politically toxic

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By Shakeel Hashim Verified, Veronica Irwin Verified, Celia Ford Verified
| Transformer
Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. Security researchers used Claude to hack into OpenAI, gaining access to many of its algorithmic secrets. Sam Altman and Jensen Huang will attend next week’s Trump-Xi state dinner, following talks between Scott Bessent and He Lifeng this Sunday.
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The US government is failing Americans on AI

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By Shakeel Hashim Verified
| MSN UK Verified
It is hard to get Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Dario Amodei to agree on much. But over the weekend, all three AI company CEOs called for AI development to slow down in the face of growing, alarming risks. Their employees are sounding the siren too, with one researcher publicly quitting and accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of “gambling with our lives”. The combination of dire warnings from insiders and growing real-world evidence of rogue AIs should, in a sane world, lead to government action.
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Congress must not waste the AI policy window

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By Shakeel Hashim Verified, Celia Ford Verified
| Transformer
Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. Sen. Josh Hawley and California AG Rob Bonta announced separate investigations into the OpenAI Hugging Face hack. Rep. Ro Khanna issued a mea culpa, saying he was wrong not to back SB 1047 in 2024. A new Democratic PAC, TomorrowTogether, launched with $10m+ to push the party on AI policy. But first… A lot can change in a week.
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