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GPT-5.6 gets the Fable treatment
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Hugging Face hosts nudification tools targeting a former Trump cabinet official and other senior US political figures
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Earlier this month, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said he was visiting Washington “to talk directly with policymakers … about open-source AI.”
We don’t know exactly what he told these policymakers. But...
What Alex Bores’ defeat tells us about AI politics
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Alex Bores, the New York assemblyman who put AI safety at the heart of his campaign, lost to Micah Lasher in a race to represent New York’s 12th district in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. With mos...
Is Fable the wakeup call DC needed?
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- Sen. Marsha Blackburn is negotiating with the White H...
How to fill Congress’s AI knowledge gap
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Whether it’s the Great American AI Act — a near-270-page draft framework for governing frontier models, released in June by Representatives Jay Obernolte and Lori Trahan — or...
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Shakeel is the editor of Transformer, a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI. He was previously a news editor at The Economist.
I'm an ex-neuroscientist and current AI reporter at Transformer. When I'm not writing, I play bass, dance, and kiss my cats on the forehead.
Tech, policy, politics. Political editor @ The New World, Fellow @ Demos, newsletter @ techtris, PhD researcher @ UCL Laws. Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World.
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Senior AI Policy Reporter at Transformer X/Bsky: @vronirwin IG/Threads: @vronwrites LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronica-irwin-009266112/ Signal: vronirwin.72 veronica(at)transformernews(dot)ai
Yi-Ling Liu is a writer and journalist-in-residence at the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She is the author of The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet.
CTO of Mozilla. Previously scaled Twitter, launched self-driving cars at Uber, first CTO of the DNC. Writing about open source AI and why we should be owners, not renters.
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