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Amazon's self-driving unit just hit a major setback
Zoox's custom robotaxi lacks mandatory features like brake pedals and mirrors.
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Timothy B. Lee
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Nobody knows what to do about AGI
Lots of people want policymakers to take AGI seriously. But what does that mean?
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Timothy B. Lee
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It's time to take AI job loss seriously
Big change is coming and policy needs to adjust.
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Matthew Yglesias
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OpenAI just released GPT-5—it just didn’t call it that
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 demonstrates the power and limits of pretrained models.
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Timothy B. Lee
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February 2025

My brother explains what it's like to run an AI startup
The Shortwave email app uses six different models for a range of tasks.
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Timothy B. Lee
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Driverless trucks are coming and unions aren’t happy about it
Will Trump side with driverless trucking startups or the labor movement?
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Timothy B. Lee
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These experts were stunned by OpenAI Deep Research
"I would use this model professionally," an antitrust lawyer told me.
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Timothy B. Lee
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We're Finding Out What Humans are Bad At
AI Advances Fastest When We Find Unnatural Ways of Doing Things
Published on Am I Stronger Yet? • 
The EU AI Act is Coming to America
The AI regulation onslaught
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The world is giving up on AI safety
French president Emmanuel Macron says we are in "a time of innovation and acceleration."
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Timothy B. Lee
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Tesla's robotaxi strategy looks a lot like Waymo's
Tesla is rolling out a geofenced taxi service in Austin backed by remote operators.
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Timothy B. Lee
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o3-mini is a mixed bag
OpenAI's latest model is better than other models at some things, but worse at others.
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Timothy B. Lee
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