More than four hundred economists signed a statement saying AI could reshape the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution did, and that nobody can currently measure it. Both the people who want to legislate now and the people who want to wait are arguing from that same admission.
Read the issueThe Trump administration used export-control law built for chips and reactors to shut down two of Anthropic's newest models over a cybersecurity dispute, then reversed course three weeks later. It was the first time the tool had been pointed at AI software instead of hardware.
A bipartisan draft would set one federal rulebook for building AI and bar states from writing their own for three years. The states already doing the regulating call it a giveaway.
Whether frontier models should ship with their weights open has hardened into two coherent camps that aren't really speaking to each other any more.
The scaling-has-stalled argument resurfaced, and underneath it a quieter fight over whether any evaluation can really promise a model is safe.
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