OpenAI made economic proposals — here’s what DC thinks of them
THE SO WHAT
Once a frontier lab is submitting explicit economic proposals to DC, AI policy is no longer about abstract safety — it’s about who captures surplus and who pays for disruption. If your business leans on “we’ll figure out the regulatory piece later,” shorten that timeline; the rules are being written with specific balance sheets in mind.
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