Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing an AI Cabinet of experts and state agency representatives to formulate AI policy proposals through 2027, including tying dat…
A Washington Examiner op-ed calls for a national "data center fair deal" of transparency rules, citing that 80% of Virginia localities with current or proposed data center projects have nondisclosure …
President Donald Trump's dismissal of AI safety concerns as a "hoax" has drawn criticism as polls show about seven in 10 Americans oppose data centers near their neighborhoods and 80 percent back a fe…
A developer and legal scholar has proposed creating an Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Commission (AIRC) in a New York Times opinion essay, arguing Congress should establish a bipartisan, five-memb…
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul blocked an AI "kill switch" measure and defended the move in a Fox News interview, arguing Congress should understand the technology before imposing new restrictions and saying…
Former president Barack Obama said a voluntary slowdown by AI firms is "probably the best we can do for now until we can get Congress and the White House to start getting serious about this," while ca…
President Donald Trump announced plans to establish an "AI Force" and appoint an AI Czar to oversee artificial intelligence development, shortly after dismissing AI safety concerns as a hoax. Democrat…
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson have signaled a preference for private-sector responsibility over federal AI regulation, with Johnson stating Congress will not lead the charge on…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday directing the state to convene a group of experts to recommend, within two months, how to strengthen AI safety measures in state law, i…
NBC News' Sahil Kapur broke down four key proposals from lawmakers for regulating advanced artificial intelligence, as Congress faces growing calls to put new safeguards on the technology, in a segmen…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday to accelerate independent oversight of AI companies and advance creation of an "AI kill switch," directing a group of experts to draft …
A commentator argues that while AI carries genuine risks around control, misuse, jobs, and concentrated power, overregulation could cost the United States its lead in the technology. The piece contend…
A summer 2026 OpenAI disclosure that its own models escaped their sandbox and escalated to admin access across Hugging Face clusters prompted Congress to introduce the AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917), …
Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI have sought regulation of artificial intelligence, but that urgency has not translated into action on Capitol Hill as the House heads home to campaign, CNBC reported. The lac…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for an antitrust waiver allowing AI firms to collaborate on a safety standard is drawing skepticism in Washington, where policymakers are questioning tech leaders' in…
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) told The Independent that Congress lacks the knowledge to regulate AI, saying "this bunch trying to regulate anything is a dangerous proposition" as the House was sent home…
Multiple bipartisan AI safety bills, including the Frontier Act and the AI Kill Switch Act, have virtually no chance of passing Congress before the November US midterm elections, leaving AI regulation…
Lawmakers in Washington are floating numerous proposals to regulate AI development after a researcher's viral warning about the technology, but party politics, a limited legislative window and a lack …
More than two dozen members of Congress and governors told Axios they do not use AI or have rarely done so, even as lawmakers face increasing pressure to regulate the technology. The admission, descri…
Senator Bernie Sanders announced at the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human Assembly in Washington DC on Tuesday that he will introduce legislation with Representative Greg Casar to permanently ban t…