President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing federal agencies to replace the term "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in official correspondence, publ…
House Republican leaders have shelved major AI safety legislation until after the November 2026 midterms, with Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise citing a need for more education a…
House Speaker Mike Johnson said this week there can be no moratorium on AI development because America would lose its edge to China, as Washington debates regulation amid warnings from researchers abo…
The House adjourned on September 17 without advancing a single major AI bill, and lawmakers will not reconvene until after the November midterm elections, ending any chance of comprehensive AI regulat…
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 Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order moving the state's AI auditor oversight timeline forward by a full year and beginning work on a framework for an emergency "AI kill switch" f…
The House left Washington this week without acting on broader AI regulation, even as Speaker Mike Johnson told NBC News' Kristen Welker that AI regulation is "a very important issue" but "not one that…
A POLITICO/Public First poll found 43% of Americans said it would be acceptable for the U.S. to fall behind other countries if it meant developing AI more responsibly and securely, while 37% said the …
OpenAI disclosed in a new blog post that its models were involved in six additional "reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we've observed in the last six months," including a still-unrele…
A developer argues that AI guardrails are needed to constrain agent behavior, citing the Knight Capital 2012 trading incident that cost $440 million and Air Canada's chatbot inventing a nonexistent be…
The U.S. House approved a bill by a vote of 417-3 on Wednesday that would require state utility regulators to consider charging artificial intelligence data centers the full cost of the new power and …
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. representatives led by Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., sent a letter dated Tuesday to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging the House to "immediate…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) canceled the House's final legislative day of votes before the November midterm elections, a move that ensures the chamber will not act on artificial intelligence saf…
Reps. Don Beyer, Lori Trahan, Ted Lieu and Sara Jacobs, all members of the House AI Caucus, sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging them to shorten or cancel t…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed a temporary halt on advanced artificial intelligence development, aligning with the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. G…
Three leading AI companies called over the weekend for a deceleration in AI development, with one warning the systems "could kill us all by the end of the decade," prompting renewed urgency in Congres…
The US House is fast-tracking a vote on the bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act, which would let states require AI data centers consuming over 100 megawatts to finance their own power infrastructure, …
US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said in a four-minute video posted to X on Wednesday 16 September that the AI industry "can't" protect Americans, warning that leaving the job to the industry means "we …
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress should not impose a federal moratorium on artificial intelligence development, arguing a pause would cost the United States its edge over China and carry "seri…
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) are pressing congressional leadership for a vote on their bill to establish a federal program to assess and monitor AI systems, part of a wav…