Why it might not make sense for you to own a self-driving car
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-it-might-not-make-sense-for-you
Published: May 14, 2026 19:36
Tensor let me sit in their driverless car. It might go on sale in the US next year.
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A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI
https://www.understandingai.org/p/a-big-lesson-of-my-china-visit-compute
Published: May 12, 2026 21:15
One estimate suggests that OpenAI has about as much compute as the entire Chinese AI industry.
I don’t think we are close to “AI scientists”
https://www.understandingai.org/p/i-dont-think-we-are-close-to-ai-scientists
Published: May 6, 2026 20:31
Today's AI agents are not designed to extract deep insights from new observations.
Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos
https://www.understandingai.org/p/human-drivers-keep-crashing-into-454
Published: April 22, 2026 22:49
Waymo's biggest mistakes happened when it stopped in the wrong place.
Meta is back in the LLM game after a year-long break
https://www.understandingai.org/p/meta-is-back-in-the-llm-game-after
Published: April 20, 2026 13:39
What Muse Spark tells us about Meta’s new AI strategy.
Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-anthropic-believes-its-latest
Published: April 8, 2026 23:25
“The language models we have now are probably the most significant thing to happen in security since we got the Internet.”
Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry
https://www.understandingai.org/p/bernie-sanders-has-a-plan-to-stop
Published: April 6, 2026 19:02
But it will be hard to assemble a broad coalition of AI skeptics.
Why it’s getting harder to measure AI performance
https://www.understandingai.org/p/why-its-getting-harder-to-measure
Published: April 2, 2026 11:33
The most famous chart in AI might be obsolete soon.
OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video app
https://www.understandingai.org/p/openai-is-shutting-down-sora-its
Published: March 25, 2026 19:00
"We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests," an exec said.
How to think about AI company finances
https://www.understandingai.org/p/how-to-think-about-the-ai-company
Published: March 19, 2026 20:49
OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.