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Former Trump White House chief strategist turned right-wing media figure, hosting the "War Room" podcast and shaping nationalist political strategy.
Semafor's analysis of closed captions finds more than half of Fox News mentions of data centers favorable, against under 10% on CNN and 5% on MS NOW. The gap is in the coverage, and the analysis does not tie it to any permitting or siting decision.
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Donald Trump's new AI task force is co-chaired by four officials from intelligence, personnel, technology and the FTC who represent competing views on AI. Product teams should plan around the features each camp has already objected to.
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At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, a progressive senator asked Trump to negotiate a pause with Xi while the president's former chief strategist demanded China be cut off entirely. Both aimed at the same companies.
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A New York Times poll puts 47 percent of Republicans against data center construction. The party's own strategists are telling candidates to keep their distance from the projects the president keeps defending.
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Wired reports a split on the American left over whether frontier-lab extinction talk distracts from harms already happening. The one bill in that account pairs an existential justification with a permitting instrument.
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The Pro-Human Assembly put a filed pause bill, a coalition of more than 50 organisations and a claim of enacted laws in five states on the same stage in Washington. The state count is the part a product team can plan against.
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OpenAI has told a sponsor of the FRONTIER Act that it can support the bill's independent-auditor provision.
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Governments split within three days of the essay, with Donald Trump calling the warnings a hoax and the UK saying it must heed them, while the incident Dario Amodei cites was reviewed on OpenAI's terms.
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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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Trump says the only guardrail AI needs is a strong and smart president. The controls a product team can actually cite are Anthropic's own plug-pulling, Microsoft AI's new outline and Monday's market selloff.
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Chuck Schumer wants a classified all-senators briefing on AI regulation and Speaker Mike Johnson wants a sit-down with AI executives, but the only AI-adjacent bill with floor time this week is about who pays for grid upgrades.
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Investors had held US equities near records on the view that Bessent was coordinating Trump's policy sensibly. His answer to a 10-year yield testing 5% was a buyback he announced at $6 billion and executed at about $5.2 billion.
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Scott Bessent says term premiums show investors are not charging extra to hold long US debt. The 30-year sits at a 52-week high of 5.35%, and UBS told clients the buyback plan has had no discernible impact.
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