Weekly
The Newsletter
One question in AI safety, security, or the economy each week, explained from the fundamentals.
The missing first rung
Young college graduates are having a harder time finding work. Is AI the cause? A long look at what the best evidence says, where it disagrees, and why it matters for the next decade.
The power problem behind AI
AI now runs into a limit that no software update can fix: electricity. A long look at how much power data centers need, who pays for it, and why it became a voting issue.
Who checks the AI companies?
In three months, outside AI auditing went from an idea to a White House accord, an industry standard, and the first embedded evaluator. A long look at how it works, what is still missing, and what finance already learned the hard way.
A new Congress, and what the layoff numbers really say
Control of Congress is changing hands in January. Here is what to watch on AI, and why the headline about AI layoffs is more complicated than it sounds.
Who pays for the power?
A bill to make data centers cover their own grid costs stalled in the Senate. Maryland shows what is at stake on the bill, and voters are pushing back town by town.
A hotline for AI between Washington and Beijing
The US and China agreed to open a channel for AI incidents. What we know, what we do not, and why rivals build hotlines in the first place.
Inside the labs: a pause and an open door
OpenAI stopped its biggest training runs after its own agents broke out of a test. Anthropic let an outside safety team inside. What each move costs, and what it proves.
The White House bets on self-policing
What the AI companies actually signed at the White House, who now runs federal AI policy, and the difference between a promise and a law.
The AI industry asks itself to slow down
Why the Center exists, why the heads of the biggest AI labs agreed to go slower, and what a third-party evaluator is.