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Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Four people spent the weekend arguing about why frontier labs want Washington to slow the field down, and none of them agree on the motive. Meanwhile Amazon did something instead of saying something.Jensen Huang tells CBS that leaders calling for regulation want to be "relieved of the laws we do have" for "ulterior reasons" — the one checkable accusation in the argument, and he doesn't name a law.Ben Thompson's account requires nobody to be lying: pacing can be sincere and strategically convenient in the same breath, which leaves no villain to remove.Ezra Klein wants a ban on recursive self-improvement — a boundary rather than a principle, and one a drafter has to turn into a number.Scott Bessent says the US proposed an incident notification channel to China before the summit, which means somebody has to define an incident first.Amazon blocked Meta's Muse agent from shopping on customers' behalf, citing merchant consent — a right asserted for third parties who never signed anything about agents.Forty-five data center projects worth sixty-eight billion dollars were blocked or delayed by local opposition in one quarter, while residual value guarantees move the risk onto the vendors.EvoPilot's thirty-seven-day autonomous research campaign documents a completed run that produced a number with the wrong sign, and enumerates four ways that happens.Ireland fined Google four hundred and three million euros over location data and gave it six months — the clock matters more than the number.