Cantwell's Senate Commerce return revives frontier AI rules
Democratic midterm gains put Senator Maria Cantwell in line to chair the Senate Commerce Committee again, and her plan for frontier AI calls for independent audits, continuous testing and developer liability. A Sanders and Casar bill would go further and ban superintelligence outright, but new Vals tests found that an open-weight DeepSeek model nearly matches OpenAI's restricted cyber model, which raises doubts about how much limited access can contain. Money is also tighter: OpenAI's new round is reportedly short of its target, and Microsoft plans to rely on fewer neocloud partners. Here are the 3 stories that matter most, then 17 briefs.
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