AI Policy

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. When the people selling you AI start begging regulators to slow them down, you should be suspicious. When those same companies get sued for agreeing with each other about it, the story gets interesting. Last week, four paying AI subscribers filed a proposed class action claiming the September “pace the frontier” consensus — the one Sam Altman personally endorsed — was an illegal agreement under the Sherman Act. I read the filings so you don’t have to, and the messy part isn’t the lawsuit. It’s what it exposes about who actually decides how fast your tools improve. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I was scrolling through AI news last week and realized something unsettling: the two biggest AI companies in the world can’t release their own models anymore without government sign-off. Not in the EU. Not in China. In the United States. If you’ve been following AI this year, you know tensions have been building, but this is a different kind of problem. It’s about whether any of these companies can ship at all. ...