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The state as developer and orchestrator: public compute, health, administration, and state capacity.

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The missing signatures

UN General Assembly week: twenty-two leaders call for an institution able to act on the frontier and the three countries that host the labs do not sign, the companies ask the …

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A private company's Slack

The week the risk of extinction jumped from online forums to front pages, to the US Senate and to an interview in Buenos Aires: a threat that by definition includes all of us, …

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Two ninety-nine

The week OpenAI released the model it had halted for being dangerous, New York banned what it cannot see, and the detector used to measure how much of the web is AI-written turned …

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A Notice Pinned to a Locked Door

The week protecting minors meant identifying every adult, a philosophy journal banned what it cannot detect, and Amazon finished scanning the books it then throws away.

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Pax Silica

The week the United States asked thirty-five countries to pick a side, and the week both sides stopped for the same reason, for the same two weeks, entirely on their own say-so.

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610 gigabytes of openness

The week transparency became mandatory in Europe and California, and the week the numbers were published showing what it actually costs to lift an open model.