Reported Wiener win leaves SB 1047's 10^26 threshold a 2024 veto, not federal law

MIT Technology Review's 10 November 2026 Download reports that California Senator Scott Wiener won the race for Nancy Pelosi's open San Francisco seat and, hours after the call, described federal AI policy as a priority. In a 20-minute interview he used 'recursive self-improvement' repeatedly and said development should be slowed. The roundup supplies no bill number, hearing date, or committee assignment. An interview is not an enrolled statute. The document trail is California SB 1047 (2023-2024), which Wiener authored. The enrolled bill covered models trained with more than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations, required safety protocols, pre-deployment assessment, and a full-shutdown capability. Governor Newsom vetoed it on 29 September 2024. Pelosi publicly opposed that bill in August 2024. Executive Order 14110, at 88 FR 75191, used a related 10^26-FLOP reporting threshold. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 imposes general-purpose AI duties the United States has not matched in statute. NIST AI 100-1 remains voluntary. The same newsletter argues that data-center opposition, observed in Ashburn, Virginia, tracks electricity rather than a culture war over progress. That reading matches the permit split. Grid interconnection and new transmission are utility and PJM processes; onsite generation moves the fight to air permits and local zoning. Loudoun County already hosts the largest U.S. data-center cluster. Contracted load appears in utility forecasts and rate cases before it appears in campaign rhetoric. Image campaigns do not add megawatts or shorten interconnection queues. Operationally, Wiener's leverage depends on committee jurisdiction, floor time, and text, not on a post-election interview. A bill that matters will name an agency, a threshold, a duty, and a penalty, then survive preemption fights with states that already enacted narrower rules, including Colorado SB 24-205 (enacted 2024; effective date 1 February 2026). Until Congress.gov lists an enrolled public law, binding U.S. instruments remain export controls, sector statutes, and any still-effective executive reporting rules. Data-center power constraints will be settled in interconnection studies and rate cases, not in messaging about backlash.