The leaders of Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI pledged to slow down and House Democrats asked to stay in session, but the Speaker's schedule sends the chamber home this week, and three named safeguard bills have no floor time until after November.
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Rep. Ro Khanna's Human Control Over AI Act puts frontier model training and deployment under federal license, with agency auditors inside every lab. Safety work would become a legal condition of building models, though no House bill is expected to get a vote before the midterms.
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Asked on a Dallas tarmac whether AI could end humanity, the president said he had no concerns and put the US a year ahead of China, while three separate catastrophic-risk bills sit in the congressional record.
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Mark Zuckerberg rejected Dario Amodei's call for a coordinated AI slowdown, telling Joanna Stern each lab should delay its own releases when it sees problems. Until the rival labs' testing body launches, reportedly by the end of 2026 or early 2027, each lab sets its own release timing.
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Trump allies are circulating a memo branding Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei the face of AI 'doomerism' ahead of a November IPO targeting about $2 trillion. Buyers would pay about twice the $965 billion private mark for a company the administration has already hit with a supply chain designation.
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The House adjourned on September 17 and does not return until after the November midterms. For anyone budgeting AI compliance, that leaves California-style state statutes and the EU AI Act as the rules that bind.
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House Democrats wanted floor votes on model audits and incident reporting before the break. Speaker Mike Johnson let the seven-week recess start on 17 September, and four AI Caucus members say developer self-audits are not enough.
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Wired reports the FINRA-style oversight framework has sat in limbo since executives called Trump in August. Product teams are left with an embedded-auditor bill and no House voting days before the midterms.
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The bipartisan AI safety bill has OpenAI, Anthropic and members of both parties behind it. The House Energy and Commerce chairman says only that he will not rush it through a lame duck session.
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build1 publisherOne report OpenAI has told a sponsor of the FRONTIER Act that it can support the bill's independent-auditor provision.
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Scott Bessent and FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson both pushed back on the industry's two asks in public but non-binding terms, and OpenAI said it can coordinate on safety with rivals without an antitrust waiver.
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Chris Lehane has confirmed weeks of private safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, and Sam Altman has agreed to outside evaluators, though the two published accounts of that promise disagree on where the evaluators would sit.
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Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon shared a Washington stage on Tuesday to press Congress for binding AI limits. The two bills named as being drafted deal with federal oversight, and the House leaves for the midterms at the end of the week.
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OpenAI says the joint work with Anthropic and Google DeepMind has been running for weeks. Its policy chief does not expect to need an antitrust waiver, Anthropic's CEO has asked Washington for one, and the FTC chairman says his alarm bells are going off.
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The FRONTIER Act would license independent verifiers to inspect the largest frontier labs, and OpenAI has endorsed that provision days after Sam Altman promised the same access voluntarily. The bill's heaviest duties start far above startup scale.
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Mike Johnson said Congress would vote tomorrow if it had the solution. He is still sending the House home after this week until after the November elections. He proposed a meeting of chief executives instead.
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Seven named researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic want the frontier slowed, one of them quit to say so, and the only actions anyone can point to are that departure and a board seat for a former US safety official.
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