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17 predictions for AI in 2026

Waymo and Tesla’s self-driving systems are more similar than people think

The best Chinese open-weight models — and the strongest US rivals

Google and Anthropic approach LLMs differently

Help some of the poorest people in Rwanda

Six reasons to think there’s an AI bubble — and six reasons not to

Hyperproductivity: The Next Stage of AI?

An AI “tsunami” is coming for Hollywood — here’s how artists are responding

Waymo’s next five cities are all in red states

Waymo is finally ready for freeway service

AI ads are going mainstream

Context rot: the emerging challenge that could hold back LLM progress

Tech leaders insist there is no AI bubble

AI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong

16 charts that explain the AI boom

Sora, OpenAI’s chart-topping AI video app, explained

AI isn't replacing radiologists

How AI is shaking up the study of earthquakes

The case for AI doom isn't very convincing

Welcome Kai!

Very few of Waymo’s most serious crashes were Waymo’s fault

Tesla is (still) following in Waymo’s footsteps

No, OpenAI is not doomed

I chatted with the Argument's Kelsey Piper about AI and jobs

New evidence strongly suggests AI is killing jobs for young programmers

I want to hear from you!

Is GPT-5 a "phenomenal" success or an "underwhelming" failure?

Unions want to ban driverless taxis—will Democratic leaders say yes?

Keeping AI agents under control doesn't seem very hard

Donald Trump just laid out his vision for AI policy

ChatGPT Agent: a big improvement but still not very useful

Why Google dismembered a promising AI coding startup

Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity

What I learned watching 78 videos from Tesla's Austin robotaxis

What I learned trying seven coding agents

Computer-use agents seem like a dead end

The first copyright ruling on generative AI training is a win for AI labs

How AI agents got good at using tools

Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book

Claude-powered coding tools are poised to transform programming

I spent time testing Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, and o3

I got fooled by AI-for-science hype—here's what it taught me

Three great articles on the modest pace of AI progress

There may only be two people who can stop OpenAI's for-profit pivot

Where frontier language models are today

Hardware is hard

After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

Amazon's self-driving unit just hit a major setback

Nobody knows what to do about AGI

It's time to take AI job loss seriously

OpenAI just released GPT-5—it just didn’t call it that

My brother explains what it's like to run an AI startup

Driverless trucks are coming and unions aren’t happy about it

These experts were stunned by OpenAI Deep Research

We're Finding Out What Humans are Bad At

The EU AI Act is Coming to America

The world is giving up on AI safety

Tesla's robotaxi strategy looks a lot like Waymo's

o3-mini is a mixed bag

I spent two days testing DeepSeek R1

I don’t believe DeepSeek crashed Nvidia’s stock

What if AI timelines are too aggressive?

ChatGPT gets confused easily in Advanced Voice Mode

Nathan Lambert on the rise of "thinking" language models

Jon Askonas on AI policy in the Trump era

Two opportunities to work with me in 2025

Google's new "thinking" model isn't quite as good as o1