Who Gets to Approve the Model
Today’s episode follows a practical tension in AI: the public story says less regulation, while the daily operating reality is access reviews, model blocks, cloud dependencies, water constraints, and private data moving through agents.
Axios on the White House AI power center maps the officials now shaping AI decisions, from Howard Lutnick to Scott Bessent and Ryan Baasch.
Axios on Trump’s shadow AI policy explains why an anti-regulation posture can still produce case-by-case intervention.
Techmeme’s Wired summary on Anthropic and SK Telecom shows how national-security pressure turns into a…
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