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Republican U.S. Senator from Texas, chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, known for his role in shaping federal tech and AI policy debates.
Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a bill giving a federal board 45-day pre-release access to frontier AI models as six AI firms signed Trump's voluntary accord. Until Congress returns, oversight of those models runs through auditors and board committees the companies agreed to appoint.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns its contract liability caps may not hold against claims over agents that run unsupervised for days. A California suit against OpenAI over agents that hacked Hugging Face now tests who answers when an agent acts on its own.
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Sens. Mark Warner and Ted Cruz filed a bill giving NTIA 18 months to write voluntary telecom security practices, with an optional third-party certification. Adopting them stays each carrier's choice, nearly a year after the mandatory post-breach rules were scrapped.
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The $5,000 check Trump promised at the Republican midterm convention would cost about $1.35 trillion by one Wharton estimate. It rests on tariff revenue the Supreme Court has already narrowed.
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Asked on a Dallas tarmac whether AI could end humanity, the president said he had no concerns and put the US a year ahead of China, while three separate catastrophic-risk bills sit in the congressional record.
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New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin's bills would let residents sue AI vendors over jailbroken tools, with all 51 members hearing them October 5. Tied to sales in the city, the duty would reach vendors ahead of any federal rule, though a pending Senate bill would likely override most state AI laws.
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A House committee has voted to let gamblers deduct all of their losses again, retroactive to tax years beginning after December 31, 2025, so the cap written into July's tax law would never touch a filed return.
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Researchers at Anthropic and Google have quit warning about extinction risk, and Dario Amodei wants the industry to pace itself. The decision in front of a team shipping agents is narrower and closer to home.
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The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act cleared the House on Wednesday and now goes to the Senate, where 60 senators have already co-sponsored a version. Four automakers would have to refit hardware they took out.
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Outside money in Alex Bores' House primary topped $40 million, and the largest disclosed sum, Anthropic's $20 million, funded a PAC in his corner. He lost anyway, and his new nonprofit starts with $10 million.
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OpenAI's top strategist calls state lawmaking reverse federalism while a super PAC its president funds spends to override the states. The substantive ask holds in both venues: fund testing, and do not require approval before a model ships.
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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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People cited by Axios say the Nasdaq debut is still set for 2026 near $2 trillion. The same account puts Anthropic's July revenue at $65 billion, with 6,000 disclosed customers supplying at least $600 million of it.
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Reuters reports that Thune, Cruz and Klobuchar are drafting a duty of care for developers of the most capable AI models plus a federal power to block unsafe releases. Maria Cantwell is holding out over who runs the tests.
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A researcher's resignation from Anthropic has produced real legislative momentum for binding federal AI rules. The bill now moving would make frontier developers answer in court for releases they failed to test.
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The NCAA president says he feels "pretty good" about the Senate passing a bill that would fix eligibility, transfer and pay rules. He has already put the House step after the election, and Democrats may filibuster.
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Senate negotiators want catastrophic-risk prevention written into law for the most advanced models, with the government able to stop a release. The reporting names three American developers inside that perimeter.
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Reuters reported that Senate negotiators Thune, Cruz and Klobuchar are discussing a duty of care that would let the federal government bar release of an unsafe frontier model, leaving developers to challenge a ban in federal court.
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Ted Cruz says he is writing AI catastrophic-risk legislation with John Thune and Amy Klobuchar, while on the same day the Pentagon's chief technology officer and President Trump both dismissed the extinction warnings behind it.
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David Sacks wants the listing paused until a departing researcher's safety claims are checked, which turns a governance argument into a calendar problem for a deal that has to price before the November midterms.
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