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3 issues on this debate so far.
July 4, 2026
The kill-switch precedent
The Trump administration used export-control law built for chips and reactors to shut down two of Anthropic's newest models over a cybersecurity dispute, then reversed course three weeks later. It was the first time the tool had been pointed at AI software instead of hardware.
June 14, 2026
The preemption argument
A bipartisan draft would set one federal rulebook for building AI and bar states from writing their own for three years. The states already doing the regulating call it a giveaway.
May 26, 2026
The open-weights argument
Whether frontier models should ship with their weights open has hardened into two coherent camps that aren't really speaking to each other any more.