How an AI slowdown could hit the economy and Supreme Court blocks Trump on mail-in voting: Morning Rundown

What hitting the brakes on AI could mean for the U.S. economy. The Supreme Court blocks Trump’s plan to restrict mail-in voting weeks before the midterms. And Apple TV’s “Widow’s Bay” wins big at the Emmys.

Calls to put some brakes on AI development are raising questions about whether a tech slowdown could rein in the momentum that has been powering U.S. economic growth.

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The topic of AI safety spilled into broader view last week with the resignation of multiple engineers at leading companies. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei set off a wave of calls among other AI executives to “pace the frontier” — though what exactly that means isn’t entirely clear.

But President Donald Trump flat-out rejected the idea of placing guardrails on the technology, saying yesterday on Truth Social that the safety concerns are a “hoax” and that “the only one happy about it is China.” He reiterated his stance when he called Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang yesterday and was put on speakerphone during a company all-hands meeting.

AI-related investments, broadly defined, have been responsible for nearly half of…

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