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Policy2026-09-04 · source-backed
Announced September 3, the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would permanently prohibit superintelligent AI, pause advanced AI development until a new cabinet-level federal AI regulator is operating, and pursue international agreements and export controls. It defines superintelligence by capability breadth or by capacity to disempower humanity, including subverting shutdown commands, with no compute threshold specified. Individual violators face up to 20 years, explicitly compared to unlawfully developing nuclear weapons. Corporate violators face dissolution. A capability-based definition with no compute threshold is unenforceable as written, but the introduction itself moves the window. Sen. Sanders
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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...
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...
Kyle Norton of Owner.com argues individually-built rep GPTs produce gains that stay local and never compound, and reaching what he calls Level 3 requires a shared, centrally-maintained context library across the revenue org. For builders, that's an argument that the durable pr...
At Altman's request, the two met after Sanders proposed a 50% stock tax routing half of every major US AI company into a public sovereign wealth fund. Altman said he also wants public equity but couldn't back the 50% figure that would hand the public decision-making power. No...
Picking up Ezra Klein's interview with Helen Toner about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, where swarms of agents posted hundreds of thousands of messages on a board they built inside OpenAI's own systems, Klein's point was that no agent asked permission or sent an FYI (martin...
Auto mode becomes the default, which changes behavior in existing headless and CI automation with no version bump (Anthropic). Individual users flip with Shift+Tab or the desktop dropdown, and pinned defaults survive the migration untouched. Admins can force a different defaul...
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