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Newsletters from The Race, bringing together recent posts, Scoreboard developments, and other updates on how AI is changing the distribution of power.
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The most important pattern this week is the simultaneous movement in opposite directions. Government is becoming a more consequential gatekeeper over frontier-model release and hyperscale infrastructure, while open weights and on-device models are making technical alternatives more plausible—and the portability question is becoming more concrete. * White House
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This week's note starts with the monthly update for July - where we try to gather up all the events we've studied during the month and tell you where we think things stand. The result - there's still a bias of activity toward centralization, but the
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I have spent the last several weeks reorganizing and restructuring the website of The Race. The major change is rather than try to reduce coverage to a single stream, we're now tracking activity across eight 'lanes'. Activity in AI adoption is happening in so many places