Breaking: The Republican party is panicking over its ties to Big Tech

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• The Republican party is “panicking” over its deep ties to the AI industry, realizing that “Big AI’s agenda is wildly unpopular with the American people.”
• This shift is highlighted by Trump’s move from opposing AI regulation to encouraging “voluntary preflight testing of frontier AI models,” and the emergence of a new Super PAC, Guardrails Alliance, explicitly calling out the GOP for having “sold out to the AI industry.”
• The party faces a significant challenge in attempting to “backtrack” from its previous pro-AI industry stance, as public sentiment increasingly turns against unaccountable AI billionaires.