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Brad Smith

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Policy & Regulation
Washington's Preemption Fight
A White House pushing federal preemption of state AI laws, a Senate that rejected a blanket moratorium 99 to 1, and rival super PACs from Anthropic and OpenAI-adjacent investors turned 2026 into the year AI policy split labs into camps.
Policy & Regulation
Chip Diplomacy
Washington rescinded its own China chip-tiering rule, invented a 15 percent revenue cut for itself, and then watched Beijing tell its own companies to stop buying, sending Nvidia's Jensen Huang toward Gulf orders instead.
Safety & Security
The Signal Brief: Thursday's Doomers, Dollars, and Debuts
Paul Christiano's arrival on OpenAI's safety board, Harvey's climb past fifteen billion dollars, and John Ternus's first keynote as Apple's chief executive show governance and capital sprinting to match each other's pace this week.
Safety & Security
The Signal Brief: A Council, a Confession, and a Five-Billion-Dollar Bet
Three frontier-lab chief executives told the UN Security Council their industry needs oversight, and hours later a former Anthropic pair priced a self-improving AI startup at $5 billion anyway.
Policy & Regulation
Two Capitals, One Chamber: AI's Chiefs Ask to Be Bound
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the UN Security Council for shared rules on September 23, only for the White House to reject the idea in the same session.