Washington Won't Press the AI Emergency Brake

The four biggest AI labs endorsed slowing model development on Saturday — and Washington immediately divided on whether to do anything about it. House Speaker Mike Johnson refused to bring Congress back from recess, declaring it "too risky to national security" because "China will overlap us." Meanwhile, former President Obama privately urged Democrats to put AI at the center of their political agenda, warning donors that the technology is "moving very fast in private hands" and...