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Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI

Leaders of frontier AI labs are calling for the United States government to act on AI safety, but President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have shown no interest in regulating the technology, according to Platformer. The outlet notes that the AI industry is now asking for a slowdown even as frontier labs remain lousy messengers on AI safety, and that a third antitrust loss in court produced very little consequence. The newsletter also references GPT-6 Astra and what it calls 'the AGI era.'

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Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
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AI Safety The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested

Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about

Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them

A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

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