OpenAI's Astra pause

This is a big deal for any frontier lab. Also: exposing the AI data leak to China, reactions to Google's AI leader moves, and more.

Happy Friday. Thanks to all of you, especially those of you at Google, who wrote in to say you agreed with my last issue analyzing the implications of the company’s AI exec shuffle.

Today, I’m sharing a pre-weekend link roundup that I hope you find interesting. I’m in San Francisco next week for a special project I’m excited to share more on soon.