If they were somehow benevolent

A demand from Sanders, a manifesto from Zuckerberg, and an invitation from Texas

Bernie Sanders publicly told the heads of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause frontier AI development, pointing to recent rogue model behavior, an AI-designed virus, and an employee petition, and warning that the Senate would act if they did not.
Analysts doubt the Senate threat will go anywhere for now, but the author reads Sanders being taken seriously on a pause as a sign that the mood in Washington is shifting.
Meta put out a small open-weight model called Muse Glimmer along with a 6,500-word Zuckerberg manifesto arguing that giving everyone a personal superintelligence is the path to a good outcome.
The author picks apart the manifesto for treating optimism as its own justification, while noting its concrete asks: letting companies distill each other's models, sharing mid-training checkpoints with the government, and controlling dangerous physical materials instead of the models, plus a board-level sign-off on release safety criteria.
A Wall Street Journal report says data center projects turned away by local opposition are heading to the Permian Basin in West Texas, where landowners, builders and gas producers are signing deals and land company stocks have climbed.