Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026
Anthropic Asks Washington for Power to Block Dangerous Models, Plus $350 Million for Labor Fallout
The lab's "Policy on the AI Exponential" proposes oversight modeled on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), with mandatory third-party testing above a compute threshold, days before the government pulled two of its own models under an export order.
Anthropic published Policy on the AI Exponential, a pair of regulatory frameworks accompanied by an essay from chief executive Dario Amodei arguing that policymaking built for a slower world cannot match the speed of AI. The first framework…
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