The Lame-Duck AI Policy Window Opens Today. Here's What's at Stake.

The lame-duck Congressional session begins today — roughly seven weeks in which the current Republican-controlled Congress can set the AI regulatory baseline before incoming Democrats take over in January — with OpenAI's mandatory "speed limits" proposal and the bipartisan FRONTIER Act both in play, and the pressure to move before the new majority arrives. Also: Anthropic's IPO roadshow starts today facing sharp valuation pushback, with investors calling $1.5 trillion a ceiling and October revenue missing from the S-1, and Microsoft's AI Frontiers research lab shut down with its founder calling the reorganization a train wreck.