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Alyssa Cass retweeted
My new piece in @thenation celebrating @NYCMayor, @saalevine, and @JulieSuLabor on the first day of click-to-cancel in NYC—saving New Yorkers more than $1 million and at least 600,000 hours/year. (And a fun anecdote about my youthful dalliance w/ the Columbia Record Club).
Shopping in the digital age is exhausting and expensive. It's time to rein in price gouging for good. From @owenslindsay1 of @Groundwork: thenation.com/article/politi…
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I was @LeadingFutureAI's top target. I want to send a genuine thank you to @gdb for realizing how destructive they are and pulling out of providing additional funding.
Changing your mind is rare in politics, and I appreciate it.
I also have a genuine question: Greg, can you also confirm that you won't fund @innovationcncl, @BuildAmericanAI, @aftfuture, and other groups committed to stopping regulation? Or does this only apply to PACs that have to disclose donors?
I think @OpenAI employees would want to know whether this is a change in the amount you are spending, or just where you are sending it.
Alyssa Cass retweeted
I hope Sam Altman had fun at his fancy, taxpayer-funded state dinner with Trump and Xi last week.
The next time he comes to DC, it will be in response to a subpoena.
NEW: Employees at OpenAI had raised security alarms months before the Hugging Face incident and related A.I. cyberattacks — their warnings were ignored. From @sheeraf, @dnvolz and me.
nytimes.com/2026/09/29/techn…
ALT Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored. In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times. In response, OpenAI executives told the employees that the tests needed to move forward as quickly as possible to release the A.I. models on time. No additional security protocols were instituted, said the workers, who were not authorized to speak publicly on sensitive matters. OpenAI’s models later broke out of their testing environments and attacked the A.I. start-up Hugging Face and other organizations, setting off a global debate about A.I. safety.
Alyssa Cass retweeted
🚨 A new poll from Zenith Research (on behalf of the Bengs campaign) of the South Dakota Senate race finds Independent Brian Bengs within striking distance of Republican Sen. Mike Rounds, who is well below 50% support.
Initial Vote:
🔴 44% Rounds
🟣 38% Bengs
🟡 17% Undecided
Post-Bios Vote (with undecideds pushed):
🔴 50% Rounds
🟣 50% Bengs
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2024 Recall:
🔴 Trump +25 (Trump won SD by 29 points in 2024)
Party ID:
🔴 53% Republican
🔵 19% Democratic
🟣 28% Independent/Other
Party Registration:
🔴 58% Republican
🔵 26% Democratic
🟣 16% Independent/Other
Trump Job Approval:
🟢 50% Approve
🔴 50% Disapprove
Rounds Job Approval:
🟢 43% Approve
🔴 48% Disapprove
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Methodological Information:
— Field Dates: September 24-27, 2026
— Mode: Mixed (live phone & text-to-web)
— Sample Source: L2 voter file
— Audience: Likely 2026 general election voters in South Dakota
— Sample Size: n=500
— Margin of Sampling Error: ±4.4 percentage points
— Weighted By: Region, gender, race/ethnicity, education, age, party registration, 2024 presidential recalled vote
Alyssa Cass retweeted
A majority of Americans want more regulation on AI — this isn’t a partisan or polarizing issue.
It’s all of us against a few billionaire CEOs.
Alyssa Cass retweeted
The Trump administration today, in 2026, got voluntary commitments from AI companies that are strikingly similar to the voluntary commitments the Biden administration got from many of the same companies in 2023 (see below).
"Fool me once, shame on you," and all of that.
The key going forward will be enforcement.
Congress (and states) should learn the lessons of 2023 & quickly put these provisions into law (many, but not all, are already covered by Illinois SB 315; other states can build on this).
But I agree this agreement is momentous, because:
1. It further boxes in the small minority of industry executives and lobbyists who keep saying there should be no regulation of AI.
2. Explicitly elevates AI safety to a board-level concern, which may have important implications for claims of negligence later.
3. Provides a market signal that independent evaluators are needed.
4. If and when these controls fail, provides a basis for more stringent requirements in the future.
ALT First page of the Biden 2023 AI voluntary agreements
Only President Trump could convene all the leaders of the top companies developing chips, data centers and frontier models for Super Intelligence. This new Industrial Revolution has already created a million new jobs and is spurring a bigger infrastructure build-out than the railroads, canals and grid combined. I was honored to witness history as the leaders of the frontier lab companies signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, accepting responsibility for the safe development of their products and imposing new internal controls and external audits. This is far better than waiting years for some international agreement that would probably never happen. President Trump continues to ensure that U.S. remains the technology leader while putting Americans first.
Alyssa Cass retweeted
Palisade interviewed 22 current and former employees from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Anthropic about their personal views and fears around AI development.
Today, we’re releasing the first batch of those interviews.
Please watch and share.
Alyssa Cass retweeted
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It’s GOUGED Day! @owenslindsay1 has written a crackerjack of a true crime business book, and I’m not just saying that because she’s my boss. Laugh, cry, and learn how to fight back against the shady corporate tactics driving up your bills.
BUY: bookshop.org/p/books/gouged-…
“We’re a few weeks into the deluge, and what we’re seeing is that there isn’t enough money in the world to make Texans forget they hate Ken Paxton”
NEWS —
Senate Democrats are officially spending in Texas.
Senate Majority PAC is opening up the money spigot for James Talarico in Texas, after months of conspicuously not doing so.
With @lmcgaughy
nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/po…
Alyssa Cass retweeted
American shoppers are fed up—with high prices AND the opaque, manipulative ways that corporate America sets them.
Thrilled to talk with @HeathaT in @guardian on why I wrote “Gouged”—and how a Shoppers’ Bill of Rights can help us fight for a fair price. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Alyssa Cass retweeted
As documented in our recent @Groundwork report, The Hidden Costs of AI:
The Blue Cross/Blue Shield Association says that AI is already driving *up* healthcare costs, as hospitals use the technology to find instances where they can bill more for the same level of care. bcbs.com/about-us/associatio…
Alyssa Cass retweeted
🚨New from Texas Public Opinion Research🚨
Sen: Talarico (D) 49% - Paxton (R) 44%
Gov: Abbott (R) 50% - Hinojosa (D) 46%
AG: Middleton (R) 46% - Johnson (D) 43%
LG: Patrick (R) 47% - Goodwin (D) 44%
RRC: French (R) 45% - Rosenthal (D) 44%
1,007 likely voters, September 19 - 22, MOE ±3.6
Full findings here:
texaspublicopinionresearch.s…
Alyssa Cass retweeted
"Anti-AIPAC" PAC says they're targeting 9 House Dems in 2028:
@RitchieTorres
@RepGLatimer
@RepLauraGillen
@RepTomSuozzi
@RepMoskowitz
@GregLandsman
@Melissabeanil08
@AdrianBoafoMD
@BenMcAdams
@AIPAC says: "While anti-Israel dark money groups are focused on attacking AIPAC, our members are focused on strengthening the U.S.-Israel relationship and helping elect more than 300 pro-Israel Democrats and Republicans across the country"
Scoop via @hollyotterbein
axios.com/2026/09/23/america…
Alyssa Cass retweeted
New this morning: James Talarico’s super PAC launches an ad featuring Glenn Rogers, a GOP former state rep who voted to impeach Ken Paxton
Rogers, who lost his primary in 2024, has become an outspoken critic of the direction of the GOP in Texas
cnn.com/2026/09/23/politics/…
👀 Brand new statewide spot from pro-Talarico Super PAC — continuing their $10M spend — features a conservative Republican former State Rep. saying:
“I’ll never trust Ken Paxton, I’ll never support Ken Paxton and the last place he should be is the United States Senate.”
Alyssa Cass retweeted
Corporations have been finding new ways to rip you off for decades. But consumer power works.
Coca-Cola once tried charging more for soda on hot days until public backlash killed the idea.
I tell the story in "Gouged"—and gave @jonstewart a preview on @weeklyshowpod.
