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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Washington rescinded its own China chip-tiering rule, invented a 15 percent revenue cut for itself, and watched Beijing walk away from the table anyway, sending Nvidia's Jensen Huang chasing tens of billions in 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.