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The US and China are preparing their first bilateral talks devoted to AI safety of Trump's second term, planned for mid-September ahead of an expected Trump-Xi summit, per a Reuters exclusive 2026-09-05
Mark Zuckerberg personally raised concerns about the proposed FINRA-style national AI regulator with President Trump in a private call 2026-09-04
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, the first model in its history to meet the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold of its own Preparedness Framework, and its president Greg Brockman closed the briefing with "Welcome to the AGI era." 2026-09-03
Pentagon Under Secretary of War Emil Michael said Anthropic "is still a designated Supply Chain Risk" and remains one "for the Defense Industrial Base" — one day after Commerce Secretary Lutnick said the administration "trust[s] Anthropic," and a week after a federal judge permanently enjoined the designation. 2026-09-03
Greg Brockman said "the US government" reviewed Astra before release and "came back with nothing to change" — the first time any lab has claimed the executive order's review framework touched a real launch. 2026-09-03
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act — forthcoming legislation that would permanently prohibit developing or deploying AI that surpasses human intelligence, can overthrow human governments or can subvert shutdown commands, and would pause advanced AI development until a new cabinet-level federal AI agency has written safety rules and a model-review process. 2026-09-03
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said "we trust Anthropic" and that the company is "back on the right side" with the Trump administration — a public reset of a fight that ran most of 2026, and the export controls are already lifted. 2026-09-02
OpenAI's Astra tease ran all day in the trade press: SecurityWeek and the-decoder reported the unreleased model had crossed the Preparedness Framework's "Critical" cyber threshold after finding zero-days, and PCMag reported OpenAI limiting its cybersecurity tools after the Hugging Face hack. 2026-09-02

Summary

Demis Hassabis's Google DeepMind joined OpenAI in lobbying against a bipartisan bill that would give the government emergency shutdown power over frontier AI models.

Google DeepMind and OpenAI were reported lobbying against the "AI Kill Switch Act" on July 28.
A bipartisan House "AI Kill Switch Act" was floated on July 23, targeting frontier-model shutdown authority.
A policy fight over Chinese open-weight models was reported sharpening in Washington on July 23.
CAISI Director Chris Fall resigned on July 23 after just three months in the post.
Sam Altman is scheduled to be in Washington this week for briefings on the same governance fight.

Whether DeepMind and OpenAI's lobbying stalls the Kill Switch Act, and whether the August 1 EO 14409 framework becomes real enforcement, is the open question.

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