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A debate over who should govern the most powerful AI systems is heating up fast. Sam Altman is calling for shared safety standards and responsible pacing among frontier labs, while White House AI advisor David Sacks is pushing back, arguing OpenAI and Anthropic can self-regulate without government intervention. Two very different visions for how this technology gets built and by whose rules.
That tension over oversight extends into the classroom as well. Microsoft has struck an agreement with the American Federation of Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers to establish safeguards around AI use in American schools. The deal came after months of negotiation and arrives as the AFT is also in separate talks with OpenAI and Anthropic, signaling that educators are no longer waiting on federal legislation that has so far failed to materialize.
Meanwhile, the EPA is expected to roll back limits on climate pollution from power plants, according to reporting from the New York Times dated September thirteenth, two thousand twenty six. The move would undo one of the more significant regulatory tools aimed at reducing emissions from the energy sector, which is also, notably, the sector powering the very data centers driving this AI boom.
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