Politico reported on October 19, 2026 that Anthropic is circulating a confidential draft AI safety bill on Capitol Hill. The draft would let the government block a model release posing foreseeable imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages or 50 deaths from a bioweapon, loss of developer control, or a cyberattack, with blocking adjudicated in federal court. It also bars any other agency from suspending a model's development or use and sets the frontier at 10^25 flops. Safety advocates and critics have attacked its definitions and its preemption of state rules.