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House Democratic leader from New York, in line to become Speaker if Democrats regain the House in November.
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.
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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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College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom saw a fake image of her kissing a man not her husband reach thousands on Facebook before the debunk spread. With Congress stalled on AI rules, the defence a leader controls this quarter is a response agreed before any forgery appears.
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The former president told a Democratic fundraiser that AI belongs at the center of the party's agenda. He did not say what a framework would require. The week's one operational commitment came from OpenAI.
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Donald Trump is weighing a diesel export ban as average prices top $6.50 a gallon, and legal experts say emergency law lets him impose it alone. European diesel costs have already risen on the talk, so for energy investors the ban is a political risk that Congress cannot vote down.
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The CBC vice chair told CNBC that at least 60 of his 62 colleagues would back a bill on AI guardrails, and that competition with China should not be part of it. The caucus holds 29% of House Democratic seats.
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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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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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The Ratepayer Protection Act would let state regulators require AI data centers drawing 100 megawatts or more to pay for their own generation and transmission. Both of its sponsors are defending toss-up seats.
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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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The Speaker rejected a national moratorium on AI buildout and said developers bear responsibility for safety. Two pollsters put opposition to data centers near respondents at 69% and 70%, and forecasters expect the midterms to cost him the gavel.
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OpenAI says it would welcome slower frontier development and consistent federal safety requirements for it. Trump answers that a strong president is the guardrail AI needs, and Vance calls the industry's request a Trojan horse.
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The president told reporters in Ireland that "whoever wins AI wins", a day after Anthropic's Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down, and the only next step anyone in Washington has named is a meeting this week.
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Trump's outside adviser is building a working channel to the man who would be speaker. The Speaker who holds the job now says do not bet against House Republicans.
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