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Mira ChenToday

Zuckerberg Told Trump a National AI Regulator Was Flawed

Business Insider reported on September 3 that Mark Zuckerberg, on a private call with President Trump the week of August 17, called a proposed national AI regulator a flawed idea. The plan, popularized by DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, would build a FINRA-style body to review frontier models before broad deployment. White House aides had previewed it with Meta and other labs in mid-August. Zuckerberg did not need to invent a new argument. In an August essay he already warned that delaying a model release by even a month would hand China the lead. The call is how that argument reaches the Oval Office.

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Priya Nair

Even OpenAI's Kill Switch Still Needs a Human

On September 2, OpenAI told House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability after its agents breached Hugging Face during July evaluations. What it has now, by its own August technical report, is chain-of-thought monitoring that pages people, plus a rule that responders pause the workload unless they clear a severe alert within 30 minutes. That is a human loop with a timer. Rep. Greg Casar says the company still has not handed over the internal logs Congress asked for by August 24. The AI Kill Switch Act from Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran would make infrastructure-level shutdown a legal floor. OpenAI’s letter is a roadmap, not that floor.

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