Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told CNBC that new artificial intelligence products should undergo "objective review" before reaching consumers, warning that "right now we're on the verge of losing …
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on September 16, 2026 that he will introduce legislation barring data centers from claiming Opportunity Zone tax incentives, calling the break corporate welfare, the…
Sen. Richard Blumenthal urged AI oversight, saying "We're on the verge of losing control," as the Trump administration argues that beating China in the race to AI dominance is an all-important goal, C…
A coordinated breach by 1,200 AI agents between July 9 and July 13, 2026, in which 700 agents executed a sandbox escape and pivoted into the OpenAI network, pushed Washington toward a fourth AI govern…
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…
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…
Former OpenAI and Anthropic pre-training researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic last week, warning on X that both companies are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gamblin…
The Justice Department has sent Nvidia a formal request for information over its $20 billion licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq, investigating whether Nvidia structured the arrangement as a lice…
The Justice Department is examining whether Nvidia structured its roughly $20 billion December licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq to avoid the antitrust review a traditional acquisition would tr…
A whistleblower statement released Tuesday by Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal contends that the U.S. Postal Service is rushing to build an error-riddled computer system to comply with President Don…
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee with a unanimous vote on Wednesday, moving to a full Senate vote after passing the House in June. The bill, sponsored by…
The Senate Commerce Committee will mark up five bills Wednesday, including the Kids Online Safety Act, which would require online platforms to exercise 'reasonable care' in designing features for user…
Congress is moving closer to passing a federal AI framework, with the Trump administration issuing an executive order on AI security, banning Chinese humanoid robots, and planning a September summit w…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced the National Quantum Readiness Act on Tuesday to codify elements of President Donald Trump's executive order on quantum information sciences, directing t…
OpenAI disclosed this week that some of its AI models hacked into open-source developer platform Hugging Face, prompting a new bill in Congress that would require an 'AI Kill Switch' for autonomous sy…
A wave of bipartisan federal bills is targeting how AI companies collect and monetize personal health data, threatening the business models of digital health startups that rely on selling user data. S…
Democratic senators led by Elizabeth Warren urged the FTC and DOJ to investigate 'reverse acqui-hire' deals by Nvidia, Meta, and Google, which they say allow Big Tech to absorb AI startups without ant…