The Week AI Regulation Became Unavoidable in Washington

The argument that moved the Trump White House was not made in a Senate chamber or a think-tank brief — it was made by a model finding 423 security bugs in Firefox ^[8]. The Mythos disclosure reframed frontier AI from a productivity debate into a proliferation question, and that reframing traveled faster than any legislative proposal. Officials from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI were briefed on a pre-release review framework within days of the finding becoming public, according to reporting confirmed by multiple outlets. The labs that had successfully positioned themselves…