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Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving car
Tensor let me sit in their driverless car. It might go on sale in the US next year.
May 14
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Timothy B. Lee
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A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI
One estimate suggests that OpenAI has about as much compute as the entire Chinese AI industry.
May 12
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Kai Williams
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I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”
Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations.
May 6
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Timothy B. Lee
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April 2026
Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos
Waymo's biggest mistakes happened when it stopped in the wrong place.
Apr 22
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Kai Williams
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Timothy B. Lee
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Meta is back in the LLM game after a year-long break
What Muse Spark tells us about Meta’s new AI strategy.
Apr 20
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Kai Williams
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Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
“The language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the Internet.”
Apr 8
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Kai Williams
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Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry
But it will be hard to assemble a broad coalition of AI skeptics.
Apr 6
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Kai Williams
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Why it’s getting harder to measure AI performance
The most famous chart in AI might be obsolete soon.
Apr 2
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Timothy B. Lee
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March 2026
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video app
"We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests," an exec said.
Mar 25
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Timothy B. Lee
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How to think about AI company finances
OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.
Mar 19
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Timothy B. Lee
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It still doesn’t look like there’s an AI bubble
Anthropic's annualized revenue doubled in just two months.
Mar 16
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Timothy B. Lee
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The Pentagon’s bombshell deal with OpenAI, explained
Only Congress can put meaningful limits on government abuse of AI.
Mar 2
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Timothy B. Lee
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