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The Weekly Brief: The Voluntary Era Ends
The week in AI safety, analyzed.Covers October 10 through October 17, 2026.The FTC served OpenAI and Anthropic with fifty-page subpoenas. Europe launched its first AI law enforcement actions. Eight states sued OpenAI on the same day. And Anthropic was caught quietly pitching Congress its own AI safety bill: the same week the government came for the labs, one of the labs started writing the law. Mark and Lisa connect the enforcement wave on both sides of the Atlantic, weigh what ended the voluntary era and what did not, go deep on the self-replication warning and Microsoft's emergency brake…
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