Understanding AI

Why it’s getting harder to measure AI performance

The most famous chart in AI might be obsolete soon.

Apr 2 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • Timothy B. Lee

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February 2026

Sorry skeptics, AI really is changing the programming profession

But AI agents aren't making programmers obsolete.

Feb 27 • Timothy B. Lee

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The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic

Anthropic faces a Friday deadline to allow domestic surveillance and automated killer robots.

Feb 26 • Timothy B. Lee

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Waymo just revealed a crucial statistic for scaling its technology

At any moment, just 70 people oversee Waymo’s 3,000-vehicle fleet.

Feb 18 • Timothy B. Lee

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A volcano scorched hundreds of Roman scrolls — can AI recover their text?

Despite early breakthroughs, it could take years to decode all the scrolls.

Feb 17 • Sage Bergerson

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The many masks LLMs wear

Why frontier labs struggle to keep their chatbots in character.

Feb 9 • Kai Williams

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January 2026

The feds are probing Waymo's behavior around school children

It's not clear if Waymo was at fault for striking a child at 6 mph.

Jan 29 • Timothy B. Lee

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An unlikely ally for open-source protein-folding models: Big Pharma

Drug companies are funding open-source AI to avoid depending on Google.

Jan 28 • Kai Williams

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