The White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge secured voluntary company commitments on power supply, infrastructure costs, and community investment. What it did not create was a binding safety regime for frontier models. Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) looked at that arrangement after Democrats captured both chambers in the November 2026 midterms and posted three demands on X:…
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar are introducing legislation that would ban artificial superintelligence, pause development of advanced AI systems and create a new Department of Artificial Intelligence
