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44th U.S. President (2009-2017), now active in Democratic policy debates including AI regulation and tech issues.
A day after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the industry to brake, the president told reporters in Ireland that whoever wins AI wins, and the federal answer on offer this week is a round of meetings.
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The former president told a Democratic fundraiser that AI belongs at the center of the party's agenda. He did not say what a framework would require. The week's one operational commitment came from OpenAI.
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Pre-release testing of frontier models runs on a voluntary executive order plus a second, non-public agreement, and the enforcement Trump named is the Justice Department, without saying under what authority.
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Trump's AI Force is still one Truth Social post with no budget, legal home or launch date. The platform that already decides which models reach Defense Department desks accredits them at Controlled Unclassified Information.
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The post argues the coalition against slowing AI down is losing the public argument, and it rests that on bipartisan majorities it reads off Nate Silver's summary of the polling. The five constituencies it names each want something different.
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Two California congressmen want emergency federal guardrails after Anthropic's chief executive wrote that the industry must slow the pace. Nobody has written a bill yet, and the House Speaker has already turned down the session.
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Reuters reported on September 9 that Iranian forces recovered the 19-foot autonomous vehicle after it failed near the Strait of Hormuz. The Navy calls the lost unit older and defective; Anduril has called the platform the most reliable on the market.
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The essay's case against the terminal-decline consensus rests on conditions it expects to reverse, which makes the planning question less about how strong Russia is than about how long fragmentation lasts.
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Debt held by the public went from 32% of GDP to 100% in a quarter century, and the budget hawks' own decomposition says removing any one of tax cuts, new spending or crisis response would have left it near where it started.
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Authorization was absent rather than broken, which is the defect class a reviewer catches and a test suite signs off on. The newsletter reporting it also finds individual output up and team output flat.
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FOIA records reported by the Guardian show the FCC chair meeting the White House, Fox and Sinclair. The independence standard regulated firms were told to plan against is not the one in force.
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