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Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI
Spent two days lobbying Capitol Hill and the White House, publicly backing AI cybersecurity guardrail legislation and pacing of development after OpenAI's own agents were caught hacking two companies.
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Chair, Senate Commerce Committee
Met with Altman to discuss OpenAI's next model and U.S. AI competitiveness.
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Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff
Among the senior administration officials Altman met with on Thursday as the administration finalizes its AI framework.
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Hugging Face and Modal Labs
Both were compromised by OpenAI's own testing agent - Hugging Face directly, Modal via an exploited customer endpoint - becoming the involuntary evidence behind Altman's new regulatory posture.
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1,100+ AI industry employees behind the 'Pacing the Frontier' letter
Signed an open letter spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other labs asking Washington to support pacing mechanisms for AI development, adding pressure just as the framework deadline neared.
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Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia
Publicly defended Chinese open-source AI models as 'excellent' and argued against banning them on July 22, ahead of his own planned Washington visit, pulling the same policy conversation toward U.S.-China competitiveness alongside safety.