The Power Law

China Is Reverse-Engineering America’s Best AI Models

How AI distillation attacks risk extracting US frontier AI at scale

22 hrs ago • Peter Wildeford and Theo Bearman

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February 2026

The Pentagon's War on Anthropic

The Pentagon has a legitimate principle, and a terrible strategy for enforcing it

Feb 27 • Peter Wildeford

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January 2026

The case for paying whistleblowers to report on export violations

A bipartisan, bicameral bill would apply the SEC’s successful whistleblower incentive model to export enforcement

Jan 29 • Erich Grunewald

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Maduro has been captured. What's next?

The operation was flawless. What comes next is anyone's guess.

Jan 3 • Peter Wildeford

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December 2025

My template for a quarterly review + plan

A free Google doc template for the system I actually use

Dec 22, 2025 • Peter Wildeford

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Ronny Chieng and I investigate the promises of AI

I was on the Daily Show!

Dec 5, 2025 • Peter Wildeford

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November 2025

Will competition over advanced AI lead to war?

Fear and Fearon

Nov 21, 2025 • Oscar Delaney

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Should the US do a Manhattan Project for AGI?

Such a Project is neither inevitable nor a good idea

Nov 20, 2025 • Peter Wildeford and Oscar Delaney

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AI Ran Its First Autonomous Cyberattack

Chinese hackers used AI and changed the economics of cyberattacks

Nov 15, 2025 • Peter Wildeford

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October 2025

AI is probably not a bubble

AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value

Oct 29, 2025 • Peter Wildeford

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15 fellowships and 10 roles for AI policy this October

Fully-funded entry-level fellowships and other full-time roles

Oct 6, 2025 • Peter Wildeford

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September 2025

OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Oracle: Breaking Down $100B Bets on AGI

How vendor financing turns the S&P 500 into a giant AGI bet

Sep 25, 2025 • Peter Wildeford

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