People keep trying to make AI regulation a team sport. It's not.
A bill to protect Americans from data center electricity hikes passed the House 417 to 3. Then it died in the Senate, and the other side wrote their own version. A kill-switch bill got blocked on the Senate floor. A governor vetoed one, then ordered a study to bring it back. The vice president says if you're building Frankenstein, build the defense. A senator from the other side says Congress is almost out of time to control any of it.
Red or blue, both sides want the pen. Whoever's holding it writes the rules, and the rules get priced so high only the giants can afford to play.
I don't care which party writes them. I care who can afford to follow them. Right now the answer is the same no matter who holds the pen: the big labs.
Three billionaires talked the president out of an industry-funded regulator. Their worry was it would entrench the big labs. Nobody in that room was worried about the little builder. A White House dinner puts the lab CEOs at the table to negotiate the future of AI. Everyone in that room negotiates for themselves. Nobody in that room negotiates for the little builder.
That's the part I'm watching.