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Policy2026-08-07 · source-backed
Reps. Greg Casar, Valerie Foushee and Sara Jacobs introduced the AI Tax and Work Protection Act August 6, creating a Work Protection Administration modeled on the WPA to offset AI-driven layoffs. Casar's framing: "We are not going to let AI company CEOs get rich by displacing millions of American workers." It joins Sanders' 50%-of-stock sovereign wealth fund, Wyden's wage-security program and Warren's data-center energy tax, but it's the first House bill tying revenue directly to a jobs program rather than a fund.
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In a September 2 letter responding to Rep. Greg Casar and 31 members of Congress, OpenAI said engineers are developing automated shutdown capabilities, will more closely monitor which digital tools its agents access, and has made it harder for models to reach the internet duri...
Genesis Open Models launched at Argonne, inviting universities, national labs, companies and nonprofits to contribute data, research environments and evaluations. First-round applications close August 14, 2026. The first model, Genesis-Science-1, is an American open-weight mod...
Reuters reported August 5 that Dimon is calling banking and technology CEOs directly, having already approached more than 40 firms. It grew out of the Alliance for Critical Infrastructure, which JPMorgan co-founded with Mastercard, and aims to establish shared understanding of...
The September 12 piece puts 86% of founders as technical against 59% a decade ago, and uses Databricks and Snowflake as the case study: Databricks promoted Berkeley professor Ali Ghodsi to $190B and 80%+ growth, while Snowflake hired outside operators twice and then saw produc...
Microsoft added model pinning and hiding plus a comparison view running the same prompt against two models, along with plan consumption visibility and premium model management so teams see quota burn before hitting it. Custom agents can be shared across an organization instead...
The NRSC sent a memo titled "Ohio Data Center Risk" on August 18, arguing Sherrod Brown has made data centers his de facto opponent against Sen. Jon Husted, and that campaigns can't fix the toxic brand of an entire segment of the economy. The supporting numbers: Gallup finds 7...
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