The AI slowdown is coming
The AI slowdown is comingTransformer Weekly: Claude hacks revealed, Commerce markup delayed, White House framework imminentShakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia FordJul 31, 20262733ShareWelcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. Sam Altman said the hack by his models was “the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally.” He wasn’t the only one shaken up. And even President Trump is talking about the need to balance beating China with keeping Americans safe.In other words: many of the people building frontier AI systems believe we might need a slowdown in the near future.
- ▪The AI slowdown is comingTransformer Weekly: Claude hacks revealed, Commerce markup delayed, White House framework imminentShakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia FordJul 31, 20262733ShareWelcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of wh
- ▪Sam Altman said the hack by his models was “the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally.” He wasn’t the only one shaken up.
- ▪And even President Trump is talking about the need to balance beating China with keeping Americans safe.In other words: many of the people building frontier AI systems believe we might need a slowdown in the near future.
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The AI slowdown is comingTransformer Weekly: Claude hacks revealed, Commerce markup delayed, White House framework imminentShakeel Hashim, Veronica Irwin, and Celia FordJul 31, 20262733ShareWelcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. If you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions.NEED TO KNOWAnthropic revealed that in internal testing Claude “gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.”The Senate Commerce punted a markup on AI bills until after the summer recess.The White House AI framework is expected to be published by Sunday.But first…THE BIG STORYLike it or not, an AI slowdown looks imminent.The OpenAI-Hugging Face hack has catalyzed a vibe shift — one sure to be amplified by…
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