Good news: U.S. tech companies are attacking the AI race like a modern Manhattan Project — spending unfathomable money and time to beat China to superintelligence. • Bad news: The U.S. government, even if it weren't shut down, is doing nothing to prepare Americans for the coming, in some areas already-unfolding, economic and jobs shock.

Why it matters: The gap between the AI giants, employees and investors and ordinary Americans is growing by the month. This gap, if it persists, will increasingly define American political debate in the coming months and years.

"This is an enormously transformational moment," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told Axios' Alex Thompson on "The Axios Show." • "Do I think that the American people and Congress have begun to even discuss the implications of this

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