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Trump Names DNI Jay Clayton To Chair A Four-Member Super Intelligence Force, With A Report Due In 120 Days: Announced Sunday, the White House task force seats Clayton with FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Pentagon chief technology officer Emil Michael and OPM Director Scott Kupor, and is charged with coordinating the government's engagement with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers and the labs. It has 120 days, to about Feb. 1, to report on AI's risks and opportunities and recommend what the federal government's responsibilities should be. Ferguson is the same official running the FTC's safety probe of OpenAI and Anthropic, and the report date falls after the lame duck, so it is not a vehicle for anything Congress does this year. Link

Bessent Rules Out A Federal Liability Shield For AI Labs And Likens Their Calls For Regulation To Hannibal Lecter: "We cannot say, 'Oh, we absolve you of responsibility, and the government's going to take responsibility,'" the Treasury secretary said in an Axios Show interview published Oct. 3, calling warnings from Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk "alarmism without solutions" and adding, "It's kind of like Hannibal Lecter: stop me before I kill again." He said the labs do not need Washington to slow themselves down. From the other side, former FTC Chair Lina Khan said Sunday on ABC's This Week that self-regulation by Big Tech is a "proven failure" and "Congress needs to legislate." Link

Altman Breaks With Anthropic On Regulation: The World Should "Accept Some Bad Things" For Open Access To AI: In the debut edition of Politico's Decoded, published Sunday, OpenAI's CEO said there is "a lot of daylight" between the two companies' policy positions, rejected the idea that AI is dangerous enough to be held by one lab as "a completely unacceptable trade-off," and dismissed regulatory-capture concerns. He drew the line at "really catastrophic risks," including a "serious loss of control to AI." For anyone counting votes on a federal framework, the two largest labs are now publicly asking for different things. Link

Trump Defends Data Centers At An Ohio Rally And Credits Husted's Ratepayer Bill, Three Days After The Senate Blocked It: "You can't just turn them off. They'll go to China," the president said Saturday in Vandalia, telling the crowd that Sen. Jon Husted introduced the Ratepayer Protection Act to make data centers pay their own way. Cloture on that bill failed 57-43 on Sept. 30, with Democrats calling it toothless because it only asks state regulators to consider cost standards. Sherrod Brown is running against Husted's record of recruiting data centers as lieutenant governor, and reporters in the hall noted the crowd went quiet for the data center passage. Link

NYC Council Takes Testimony Today From Four Labs And Three Former Lab Researchers On Menin's AI Package: Anthropic is sending Frontier Red Team head Logan Graham, OpenAI its policy development chief Morgan Dwyer, Meta AI policy director Shane Cahill and Google its global AI policy director Alice Friend; OpenAI, Anthropic and Google agreed to appear after Speaker Julie Menin's office warned of subpoenas, and SpaceXAI is under one. At Menin's invitation the council will also hear from Jacob Coxon, who left Anthropic over safety concerns, former Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner and former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, Bloomberg reported. The package under review includes a whistleblower incentive program, a private right of action for New Yorkers harmed by AI agents and third-party validation requirements. Link

Eighth Circuit Blocks Minnesota's AI Nudification Law While xAI Appeals: The appeals court on Friday granted the company's motion for an injunction pending appeal, pausing enforcement of the first-in-the-nation statute, in effect since Aug. 1, that bars site operators and software developers from letting users generate realistic images exposing an identifiable person's intimate body parts. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank had denied a preliminary injunction on Sept. 4. The order does not decide xAI's First Amendment claim; it stops Minnesota from enforcing the law for the length of the appeal. Link

Cheyenne And Arapaho Citizens Vote 261-83 For A Three-Year Data Center Moratorium; Evanston's Has A Council Majority Before Its First Hearing: Saturday's vote of tribal citizens bars data center construction on Cheyenne and Arapaho land in Oklahoma until October 2029, with seven abstentions, and follows restrictions by the Kickapoo, Seminole and Cherokee nations. In Evanston, Ill., Councilmember Krissie Harris's one-year halt on zoning approvals and incentives "pending infrastructure and grid audits" has four co-sponsors, five of nine seats, and goes to the Referrals Committee on Oct. 12. In Hawaii County, a planning commission voted 5-1 Thursday to send Bill 170, the AI data center ban, to the council with an unfavorable recommendation because its definition is too loose; the Leeward commission takes it up Oct. 15. Link

Chicago's Building Trades And Business Groups Line Up Against Johnson's One-Year Data Center Moratorium: The coalition that stalled earlier pieces of the mayor's environmental agenda is organizing against the ordinance he proposed Sept. 23, Crain's and The Real Deal reported Friday. Unions argue a pause "would actually drive away the many union jobs that are responsible for building and maintaining data centers," and Marc Poulos of Operating Engineers Local 150 said Johnson "wants to take the lazy way out." The ordinance is still in committee. Link

Oracle Offers To Take $300 Million Of Point Beach Nuclear Costs Off We Energies Customers, Subject To Wisconsin PSC Approval: Under the agreement announced Friday, Oracle would subscribe to 125 to 250 megawatts of the increasingly expensive power We Energies is contractually required to buy from the plant, 10 to 20 percent of its output, for the Port Washington campus it is building with OpenAI; the utility puts customer savings at about $300 million in fuel costs over 2027 to 2033. Details go to the Public Service Commission for review, with a filing expected by year-end. It is the same commission that sent the campus's transmission line application back to the start. Link

This Week's Local Votes: Memphis Decides Its Data Center Pause Tuesday, Fort Smith Votes On Setbacks Tonight: Memphis's council takes the third and final reading of its amended moratorium ordinance Tuesday at 4 p.m.; it would pause new data center approvals while a study committee drawn from the health department, public works and Memphis Light, Gas and Water writes zoning rules the development code does not have. Fort Smith, Ark., directors vote at 6 p.m. today on design standards requiring a 500-foot setback and an 8-foot opaque fence. Also on the calendar: Beaufort County, N.C., today, and Oakland, Manatee County, Fla., and a Milwaukee council committee on Tuesday. Link

The OpenAI Official Who Oversaw Safety Reports For 12 Model Launches Quits And Says Its Culture Is "Broken": David Robinson, who spent three and a half years at the company and led the drafting of its Preparedness Framework, wrote in The Atlantic on Oct. 3 that the labs are not being "nearly careful enough" and that "the time for trial and error is over." His target is iterative deployment, the practice of fixing safeguards after release, which he says guarantees failures that grow with capability; he wants frontier labs run like "nuclear-power plants or busy airports," with layered redundancy. It comes days after OpenAI fired three safety researchers, and it hands regulators a named insider for the argument that post-release fixes are not a safety case. Link

Meta Lets Go The Virtue AI Safety Team It Hired In June: Co-founders Bo Li, Dawn Song and Sanmi Koyejo and colleagues who joined Meta Superintelligence Labs four months ago are leaving, Semafor reported Friday; spokesperson Andy Stone said the arrangement "didn't work out as planned" and cited clashing work styles. Virtue AI built automated red-teaming and runtime guardrail tools and had worked with Anthropic, OpenAI and NIST. Meta says the lab remains focused on safety, alignment and frontier risk, a claim it signed onto in last week's White House accord. Link

SoftBank's Son, With Nearly $65 Billion In OpenAI, Says AI Can Become "Super Dangerous": Speaking Sunday on the sidelines of the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto, Masayoshi Son called for governments to cooperate on managing the technology: "We don't have any more luxury of having human fight against human." It is a rare cautionary note from the industry's largest outside financier, who in the same appearance projected AI at 20 percent of global GDP by 2040. Link