X-Risk Weekly — 25 May–29 May 2026
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Week of 25 May
Apologies — the link in last week’s weekly digest was pointing to the daily briefing by mistake. This is the correct version with this week’s highlights.
Transformative AI
On 21 May, President Trump cancelled a planned executive order on AI safety just hours before a scheduled signing ceremony, following direct intervention from tech executives including his former AI czar David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Also in this issue
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Transformative AI Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead recursive self-improvement research team |
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Geopolitics & Conflict Pakistan army chief visits Tehran as Islamabad and Qatar pursue ceasefire in US-Israeli conflict with Iran |
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Fanatical & Malevolent Actors US reportedly unfreezes billions in Iranian assets as part of peace deal with hardline regime |
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Geopolitics & Conflict Iranian missile strikes oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz as regional conflict escalates |
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