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Barack Obama

44th U.S. President (2009-2017), now active in Democratic policy debates including AI regulation and tech issues.

Known aliases

  • Former President Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Барак Обама

Current stories

investConfirmed17 publishers

Trump ranks the China race above the slowdown the AI CEOs asked for

A day after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the industry to brake, the president told reporters in Ireland that whoever wins AI wins, and the federal answer on offer this week is a round of meetings.

Perspective Coverage

18 publishers
Builder
Builder 24%
Operator
Operator 46%
Investor
Investor 30%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption20
Hype gap+10
Incentives65
Confidence72
securityOne report1 publisher

Trump defends hands-off AI rules after hacks carried out by US frontier models

Pre-release testing of frontier models runs on a voluntary executive order plus a second, non-public agreement, and the enforcement Trump named is the Justice Department, without saying under what authority.

Publishers:cyberscoop.com

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+22
Incentives72
Confidence48
buildConfirmed5 publishers

ChatGPT Mil and Grok Gain CUI Accreditation as GenAI.mil Tops 1.7 Million Users

Trump's AI Force is still one Truth Social post with no budget, legal home or launch date. The platform that already decides which models reach Defense Department desks accredits them at Controlled Unclassified Information.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 28%
Operator
Operator 40%
Investor
Investor 32%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption58
Hype gap+42
Incentives68
Confidence60
leadershipOne report1 publisher

A Noahpinion roundup splits the opposition to an AI slowdown into five separate interests

The post argues the coalition against slowing AI down is losing the public argument, and it rests that on bipartisan majorities it reads off Nate Silver's summary of the polling. The five constituencies it names each want something different.

Publishers:noahpinion.blog

Reality

Evidence25
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives55
Confidence30
productOne report1 publisher

Khanna wants criminal sanction for the people who ship an AI that breaks the law

Two California congressmen want emergency federal guardrails after Anthropic's chief executive wrote that the industry must slow the pace. Nobody has written a bill yet, and the House Speaker has already turned down the session.

Publishers:latimes.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption22
Hype gap+38
Incentives78
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

IRGC recovers malfunctioning Dive-LD drone near Hormuz; analyst says Iran could reverse-engineer its mechanical systems

Reuters reported on September 9 that Iranian forces recovered the 19-foot autonomous vehicle after it failed near the Strait of Hormuz. The Navy calls the lost unit older and defective; Anduril has called the platform the most reliable on the market.

Publishers:tomshardware.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption30
Hype gap+35
Incentives78
Confidence45
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Foreign Affairs argues Russia's advantage expires when global disorder subsides

The essay's case against the terminal-decline consensus rests on conditions it expects to reverse, which makes the planning question less about how strong Russia is than about how long fragmentation lasts.

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+28
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence38
investOne report1 publisher

Tax Cuts, Spending and Crisis Response Explain 98% of America's Debt Slide From 32% to 100% of GDP

Debt held by the public went from 32% of GDP to 100% in a quarter century, and the budget hawks' own decomposition says removing any one of tax cuts, new spending or crisis response would have left it near where it started.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+28
Incentives68
Confidence55
leadershipOne report1 publisher

A Meta chatbot changed the email on any account for whoever asked

Authorization was absent rather than broken, which is the defect class a reviewer catches and a test suite signs off on. The newsletter reporting it also finds individual output up and team output flat.

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption41
Hype gap+22
Incentives63
Confidence45
productOne report1 publisher

Carr's Calendar Is Now the Regulatory Record: Eight White House Meetings in 11 Months

FOIA records reported by the Guardian show the FCC chair meeting the White House, Fox and Sinclair. The independence standard regulated firms were told to plan against is not the one in force.

Publishers:techdirt.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+28
Incentives68
Confidence52