Our latest off-the-record breakfast for AI policy practitioners, For Your Situational Awareness (FYSA), was a big success! Thanks to @SenatorRounds for being our featured guest.

RT @GaryShapiro: Last week, I had a great conversation with @austincarson and @Josh_A_New of @SeedAIOrg. Great to see smart conversations a….

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@SenatorRounds ◾ He thinks they will actually do all 12 appropriations bills and we can expect targeted funding for science acceleration. ◾ They are launching an RFI and looking for responses from a broad range of actors thinking about accelerating scientific progress.

@SenatorRounds ◾ ASAP will be a sustained effort with an OODA loop, NOT a one-off piece of legislation. ◾ Senator Rounds and Heinrich are working closely, and will be laser-focused on making sure their actions lead to direct benefits for Americans and don't become stale as AI evolves.

@SenatorRounds Normally you'd have to join in-person for the insights, but this time the Senator was kind enough to put his comments on the record. He shared some key details about his new initiative with Senator Heinrich, the American Science Acceleration Project (ASAP).

RT @JoinFAI: 🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨. While headlines focus on LLMs and the newest chatbot model, a much more consequential AI race is happen….

RT @WendiYan5: Brought our bioreactor game, Biotopy, to SeedAI House at SXSW this past weekend. @darrenzhu @freudenheiim . Thank you so muc….

@freudenheiim @WendiYan5 @SeanPerrymanVA @hamandcheese @BlakeBurch_ U.S. global leadership hinges on our ability to develop and deploy AI effectively, which will require major investments in infrastructure, an empowered American workforce, and a dynamic, competitive marketplace. At 2:00pm, AI x Competitiveness Panelists will discuss the

@freudenheiim @WendiYan5 @SeanPerrymanVA @hamandcheese At 5:45pm, join @BlakeBurch_ and see how visual AI makes Wimbledon more entertaining, keeps trains on the tracks, and how millions of developers build the future by giving software the sense of sight.

@freudenheiim @WendiYan5 @SeanPerrymanVA @hamandcheese From 5:00pm to 5:45pm, the AI x Deepfakes panel will explore how AI-enabled digital manipulation is changing our understanding of digital media and discuss the challenges in deploying the technology responsibly. This panel will feature video demos and virtual remarks from

@freudenheiim @WendiYan5 @SeanPerrymanVA At 4:45pm, @hamandcheese will share what AI means for the nation state in his AI and Leviathan lightning talk. Don't miss it!.

@freudenheiim @WendiYan5 @SeanPerrymanVA At 4:30pm, Jason Pruet, Director, National Security AI Office, Los Alamos National Lab, will discuss some of the unique challenges we face in adapting to the era of AI and lessons from history that can guide us.

@freudenheiim @WendiYan5 4:00pm marks the AI x Standards + Evaluations panel. Panelists will share how they’re implementing these tools and discuss what more could be done to maximize benefits and minimize the risks of AI. • @SeanPerrymanVA, Global Head of AI and Fairness Policy, Uber .•

At 3:45pm, @freudenheiim, Co-Founder, Laser Days Studio and @WendiYan5, Visual Artist will demonstrate Biotopy. Biotopy is a framework for connecting bioreactors to game engines, creating an infrastructure where living microorganisms drive digital interactions and open new

@RenPhil21 @LSU @AnthonyNAguirre @alisonmsnyder @SGRodriques @FutureHouseSF @AyhamBoucher @salesforce @juddrosenblatt @MGRichardsAI Starting at 3:30pm, Ben Brooks, Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, will discuss the importance of open models for US leadership in AI, how policymakers should think about open technology after DeepSeek, and why open-source is still at risk in

@RenPhil21 @LSU @AnthonyNAguirre @alisonmsnyder @SGRodriques @FutureHouseSF @AyhamBoucher @salesforce @juddrosenblatt At 3:00pm, the AI x Open Innovation panelists will explore how open innovation is reshaping the AI landscape and explore policy and strategic initiatives that can enhance robustness and collective progress in the AI ecosystem. • @MGRichardsAI, Senior Director, Policy, U.S.

@RenPhil21 @LSU @AnthonyNAguirre @alisonmsnyder @SGRodriques @FutureHouseSF @AyhamBoucher @salesforce @juddrosenblatt Starting at 2:45pm, Will Cutler, Head of Tech Policy and Deputy United Kingdom Tech Envoy, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, will examine recent successful examples of maximizing the opportunities of AI and discuss the importance of international collaboration and what

@RenPhil21 @LSU @AnthonyNAguirre @alisonmsnyder @SGRodriques @FutureHouseSF @AyhamBoucher @salesforce @juddrosenblatt At 12:45pm, @kevinpeterhe will explore real-time live cinema as an embodied and performative practice, contrasting it with generative AI’s disembodied process. He will explore AI as a force of agency—where AI systems interact dynamically with virtual ecosystems, creating an

@RenPhil21 @LSU @AnthonyNAguirre @alisonmsnyder @SGRodriques @FutureHouseSF @AyhamBoucher @salesforce AI alignment is often framed as a regulatory burden, but what if it’s actually a competitive advantage? . At 1:30pm, @juddrosenblatt will explore how alignment research—like clean energy before it—could shift from a perceived constraint to a key driver of AI capability and