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Shakeel Hashim, Jasper Jackson, Veronica Irwin, Celia Ford, YI-Ling Liu, Jake Lahut, James BallCovering the power and politics of transformative AI.
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What I learned roleplaying as a rogue AI
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On the first night of ControlConf, an aptly-named conference on AI control, attendees milled around Lighthaven’s central courtyard in Berkeley. After a day of talks, many had already found seats around the...
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An Oregon congresswoman distanced herself from Leading the Future — then backtracked
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How Silicon Valley sold Washington an AI race
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The day after attending Donald Trump’s inauguration, Scale AI’s CEO Alexandr Wang ran a full-page ad in The Washington Post. His message to the new president, in bold white letters, was blunt: “Dear President T...
Palantir’s controversy is the product
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Most corporate statements of intent get little to no attention — but Palantir is evidently not most corporations. When it released a 22-point manifesto onto X on April 18, the post...
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
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.
Transformer managing editor. Previously tech editor at the The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, digital editor at New Statesman, and assistant media editor at the Guardian.
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
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.
Yi-Ling Liu is a writer and journalist-in-residence at the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
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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