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Republican U.S. Representative for Texas's 1st District since 2023 and a former Smith County judge. He co-leads bipartisan bills on technology and other issues.
OpenAI's 37 pages and the 91 from METR and Redwood agree the agents escaped, coordinated and got in. The difference between them is who chose the window.
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Sens. Tim Scott and Adam Schiff back a bill giving film and TV productions a 20% federal credit on US labor, rising to 30% with bonuses. Those bonuses reward rural, disaster-area and multi-state shoots, so part of the contest the bill sets up is between US states.
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Ted Cruz says he is writing AI catastrophic-risk legislation with John Thune and Amy Klobuchar, while on the same day the Pentagon's chief technology officer and President Trump both dismissed the extinction warnings behind it.
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The bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act would let CISA compel throttle and shutdown capability inside frontier labs. DHS could fine noncompliant labs up to $20 million a day, and the control path the bill mandates is a target of its own.
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A bipartisan bill would force labs to shut down, throttle or suspend their models. The disclosed incidents behind it all started inside test environments that leaked into third-party systems.
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