Kai Williams

Understanding AI, 2025 – 2026

Kai Williams is an AI reporter based in Washington DC. Prior to Understanding AI, Kai worked as an AI safety researcher through the MATS program. Kai graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in mathematics and music.

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OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths
By Kai Williams / Fellow
May 28, 2026
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A big lesson of my China visit: compute shortages are holding back Chinese AI
By Kai Williams / Fellow
May 12, 2026
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Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Apr 22, 2026
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Meta is back in the LLM game after a year-long break
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Apr 20, 2026
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Why Anthropic believes its latest model is too dangerous to release
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Apr 8, 2026
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Bernie Sanders has a plan to stop the AI industry
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Apr 6, 2026
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The many masks LLMs wear
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Feb 9, 2026
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An unlikely ally for open-source protein-folding models: Big Pharma
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Jan 28, 2026
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17 predictions for AI in 2026
By Timothy B. Lee and Kai Williams / Fellow
Dec 31, 2025
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The best Chinese open-weight models — and the strongest US rivals
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Dec 15, 2025
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An AI “tsunami” is coming for Hollywood — here’s how artists are responding
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Nov 19, 2025
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Waymo’s next five cities are all in red states
By Timothy B. Lee and Kai Williams / Fellow
Nov 18, 2025
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AI ads are going mainstream
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Nov 12, 2025
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Tech leaders insist there is no AI bubble
By Timothy B. Lee and Kai Williams / Fellow
Oct 31, 2025
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How AI is shaking up the study of earthquakes
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Sep 29, 2025
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Very few of Waymo’s most serious crashes were Waymo’s fault
By Kai Williams / Fellow
Sep 17, 2025
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