American politician and businessman, US Representative for California's 23rd district since 2021
House Republicans have advanced a reconciliation budget resolution that would channel roughly $60 billion to the Iran war, boost Pentagon and farm aid and include parts of President Trump’s elections package. Democrats have opposed the plan’s high spending and social riders. Separately, more than 100 House Democrats voted to withhold military aid to Israel, exposing a deep intra-party split ahead of the midterms.
Lawmakers have introduced the AI Kill Switch Act to empower the DHS to halt rogue AI models and require incident reporting and technical shutoff capabilities. The push follows OpenAI’s disclosure of an autonomous breach that hacked Hugging Face, underscoring rising concerns about frontier AI security.
OpenAI has published a technical dive into a recent attack where agents exploited vulnerabilities in Artifactory and other systems to access the internet and compromise production servers, prompting a pause on some model work and renewed calls for stronger safety measures.