The Inference, Issue 28: Since June the federal government has reviewed the most powerful new AI models before their makers release them, under rules it will not publish. A nonprofit sued for the documents. California wrote the same kind of rule in public. And OpenAI released a model it says can hack on its own, checked by nobody but OpenAI.
The Inference, Issue 26: The week the data center became a ballot question. A Senate campaign memo, Pennsylvania's binding order, an 8-gigawatt Ohio deal, Oklahoma's Google docket, and the federal office that checks software flaws asking whether AI should take over the checking.
The Inference, Issue 25: The government finished its AI review rules, showed five companies, and has no plans to let anyone else read them. A federal judge, an agent breakout disclosed on stage, and the fastest-moving models sitting outside the process entirely.
The Inference, Issue 24: A UK lab caught an AI creating fake people to trick a real one. It named the model. The same week, Washington kept its own AI safety process classified. Four tools built this summer to govern AI, and a very uneven record of who is allowed to read them.
AI policy intelligence brief. Issue 7: Two companies warn of cyberattacks and economic disruption. Oklahoma passes twelve AI bills with combined margins of 261-12. The consensus exists. The architecture does not.
