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Welcome to Techno's briefing. It's Thursday, September 14. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street

Journal. Ball Fashion Week just ended in New York and while real-life models strutted down the

catwalk, AI models are starting to appear more often in ads. Like with other industries,

that raises concerns about jobs and intellectual property. But it also offers a way to expand

diversity in a sector that's known for its exclusivity. Catherine Zarella, the fashion director

of our off-duty section, is good to join us to discuss how the fashion industry is dressing up AI.

But we're starting in Washington where Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Sam Altman

were just some of the more than dozen executives and civil society leaders who addressed senators

yesterday about the future of AI regulation. It closed or all Senator's session organized by

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. These tech titans were given a chance to shape the priorities

for lawmakers. So how did it all go? I spoke with our tech policy reporter Ryan Tracy from the

Russell Senate office building on Capitol Hill as the meeting was going on. Ryan, lawmakers have

been talking about setting rules around AI and acting faster to address issues here than say they

did with social media. So did this meeting render any progress? Well, there was one moment in the

meeting where Senator Schumer, who's the majority leader of the Senate, did a poll of the room and

said, does everyone here agree that the government has a role to play when it comes to regulating AI?

And everyone in the room raised their hands. And some of the people I've spoken with who were

there regarded that as an important moment in the sense that you're getting that sort of baseline

agreement on, hey, the government does need to do something here. Of course, now the question

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