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Frontier Labs Weaponize Washington Against Rivals
Wren Calloway·The Daily
The AI safety movement has officially become a lobbying arm for the incumbents. OpenAI and Anthropic are trying to build a moat out of federal red tape.
The battle lines over the future of artificial intelligence are no longer being drawn in code—they are being drawn in congressional lobbying offices. Over 1,000 employees from the industry's major AI labs have signed a public letter demanding the U.S. government support international mechanisms to deliberately pace frontier AI development. The signatories cite the risks of rapid acceleration, but the glaring absence of any signatures from X.ai employees highlights a fractured industry consensus.
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