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Reps. Lori Trahan (D) and Jay Obernolte (R) released draft legislation preempting state laws "targeting artificial intelligence model development," including pre-release testing mandates, while still letting states regulate how AI is used. Source: Reuters Majority Leader Steve Scalise is separately shopping a preemption provision for the 2026 NDAA. This revives the state-moratorium fight the Senate stripped 99-1 from an earlier budget bill, and it faces bipartisan opposition, including Sen. Marsha Blackburn over preemption of state child-safety protections. Set this next to the Anthropic pause-button argument and you've got the whole governance fight in miniature: one side wants a coordinated brake, the other wants the states' hands off the wheel.
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Thune, Cruz and Klobuchar are negotiating a bill obligating frontier developers to design against catastrophic risks such as a model helping someone build a nuclear or biological weapon, giving the government a route through federal courts to stop a release. The same measure w...
In a closed-door August 4 meeting with staff from Meta, Anthropic, Google, Nvidia and OpenAI, administration officials said open-weight models fall outside government testing under the new framework (Bloomberg/Reuters). Five Democratic senators responded the same day calling f...
paddo.dev makes the most contrarian read: the letter's substance isn't openness but paragraph nine, defending distillation as "a widely used technique for model improvement" and urging policymakers against "conflating legitimate model development techniques with misappropriati...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
Anthropic filed a federal lawsuit to overturn its Pentagon "supply chain risk" designation, which bars Claude from all Department of Defense work. The designation came after Anthropic demanded restrictions on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons applications. In a rare sho...
Reuters, via Tech Startups, reports capital released against deployment milestones with Anthropic deploying up to two gigawatts of Instinct MI450 starting 2027. Same structure as Nvidia/OpenAI: compute vendor capital flowing to the lab that commits to buy the silicon. A two-gi...
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