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1. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Coxon on Meet the Press: AI risks need global coordination13 Sep 2026: On NBC’s Meet the Press, former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said AI capabilities could become “quite scary” within six months to a year, called for “global coordination” so the West does not rerun the race with China, and said Congress should let current labs self-regulate in the interim.
2. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Amodei on CBS: China is the ‘toughest dilemma’ for pacing AI13 Sep 2026: On CBS News Sunday Morning, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said “for too long the industry lied” about AI risks, called China the “toughest dilemma” for his pace-the-frontier plan, and said a global speed limit may be nearly impossible but still worth trying.
3. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Obama urges Democrats to put AI oversight at the center of their agenda13 Sep 2026: The New York Times published a partial transcript from Barack Obama’s office of Thursday remarks at a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser — he urged Hakeem Jeffries to build a public AI-policy framework if Democrats take the House, told 2028 candidates to make AI a “central agenda” with a “very clear plan,” and warned the tech could be “dangerous” if left unmanaged in private hands.
4. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Jeffries: Congress must act urgently to slow AI development13 Sep 2026: On ABC’s This Week, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said lawmakers must act urgently on AI, cited a Democratic AI commission’s coming “aggressive framework,” and said decisive action should slow the pace of development to protect the public — with AI a high priority at Tuesday’s Democratic caucus.
5. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Speaker Johnson: Congress won’t lead on AI safety regulation13 Sep 2026: On CNN’s State of the Union and NBC’s Meet the Press, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress will not lead an emergency AI-safety push, urged lab CEOs to take product responsibility, and floated a White House meeting with industry and lawmakers.
6. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Trump dismisses AI slowdown calls as ‘very negative forces’13 Sep 2026: At his Ireland golf course, President Donald Trump told reporters he wants the U.S. to stay ahead of China in AI and likened slowdown/regulation pressure to “very negative forces” raising scenarios that “won’t happen.”
7. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Xi proposes BRICS AI open-source community at New Delhi summit13 Sep 2026: At Session II of the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed that China pioneer a BRICS AI open-source community, support cooperation on large language models, and push a consensus-based global AI governance framework.
8. POLITICS13 Sep 2026David Sacks tells Anthropic and OpenAI: pace the frontier without permission13 Sep 2026: Former White House AI Czar David Sacks posted that if Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman want to “pace the frontier,” they should do it themselves — and stop pretending they need outsiders’ permission, antitrust carve-outs, or a preferred regulatory framework.
9. POLITICS13 Sep 2026Russia’s Dmitriev says AI development can’t be slowed: ‘You can’t put the genie back in the bottle’13 Sep 2026 — Kirill Dmitriev (RFPI head / presidential special representative) told RIA Novosti AI development can’t be slowed despite industry leaders’ safety calls for pacing.
10. POLITICS11 Sep 2026OpenAI says it is endorsing four California AI billsOn 9 September 2026, OpenAI’s Chris Lehane published a policy note saying the company is endorsing four California AI bills now headed to Governor Newsom.