OpenAI’s top strategist calls the state-by-state route reverse federalism. Its president helps fund a super PAC trying to preempt the states.

OpenAI’s top political strategist Chris Lehane calls the industry’s turn to state-level AI lawmaking reverse federalism, while super PACs backed by OpenAI’s president and a16z spend heavily for a national framework that would override state rules. The company has separately asked California to toughen a state law it once fought and asked Congress for mandatory federal requirements. The one position that holds across every venue is that evaluation and reporting are acceptable and a gate on model release is not.

Washington spent the week arguing about whether the AI industry means it. President Trump called the case for slowing AI down a hoax, and Vice President JD Vance said frontier companies asking to be regulated felt like a Trojan horse.

Ashley Gold argued in a Semafor columnthat this is the industry applying the lesson of the social media backlash: shaping regulation beats insisting you are harmless. Her piece...

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