How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

Hello and welcome to Regulator , a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It’s basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct link to do so ! And do you think I should know something? Send it to tina.nguyen+tips@theverge.com . On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release . To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total reversal in Donald Trump ’s policies. For the past year, he had been a vocal champion of pro-industry deregulation, repealing former President Joe Biden ’s massive executive order on AI safety, lifting export controls on advanced chips, and signing executive orders that would have legally punished states for passing and enforcing AI laws in the vacuum of federal legislation. Now, the Trump administration has seemingly pulled a 180, demanding federal oversight and vetting of pre-market models. But to Washington, the shift in the White House’s policy was due to three major changes. First, Anthropic’s Mythos has genuinely spooked the national security apparatus, forcing the administration to confront a new threat: the possibility of adversaries using American AI models to attack America’s public and private sectors. …