U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States is open to discussing shared AI risks with China in talks this weekend, Axios reported Wednesday. "The United States remains the leader in …
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States is open to discussing "shared risks" with China in multi-hour AI and trade meetings in New York City this weekend, with working-level talks…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the bipartisan House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the federal government should reject AI leaders' calls for liability exemptions, saying "th…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the government should not grant AI labs liability exemptions, saying "the best way to guarantee safety is t…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the U.S. needs to develop more open-source AI models to compete with Chinese firms, citing Anthropic's Myth…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday that the Trump administration has been working on AI safety "nonstop" since April, and said the administration f…
Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch (Mass.) on Tuesday urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to convince President Trump to reverse course on regulating artificial intelligence during Bessent's appearance …
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) challenged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday over the Trump administration's artificial intelligence policy,…
Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) urged Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during a July 14, 2026 House Financial Services Committee hearing to use Treasury's resources to investigate the existential risks o…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to lead reported US-China talks on AI this month, warning that "there is no day after tomorrow if China wins at this" and that the United States "can't pau…
White House National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett said in interviews between September 13 and 15 that the private sector, not a new federal bureaucracy, is best positioned to solve AI safet…
A proposal co-created by Bill and Astra calls for the United States and the People's Republic of China to establish a Strategic AI Dialogue (SAID), a permanent senior-level government-to-government me…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the United States "can't pause" artificial intelligence development because "the Chinese won't pause," speaking at a Breitbart News policy discussion on Septem…
Moonshot AI released the weights for its Kimi K3 model on July 27, 2026, after announcing the model on July 16; independent measures place Kimi K3 within one generation of U.S. frontier models. The Tr…
Former President Barack Obama urged party donors and House Democrats at a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser on Thursday to make AI regulation the centerpiece of their midterm agenda, telling them AI is…
Washington and Beijing are discussing folding a long-awaited intergovernmental AI dialogue into a broader economic meeting in the days before Chinese President Xi Jinping meets US President Donald Tru…
President Donald Trump said he has no concerns that AI could lead to human extinction, telling CNBC "No, I don't have any" and instead framing the greater danger as the United States losing its techno…
The Trump administration is struggling to craft a coherent message on artificial intelligence as AI skepticism spreads among rural MAGA voters and both political parties ahead of the midterms, accordi…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned on September 9, 2026, that America faces existential risk if China wins the AI race, but a new analysis argues the deeper threat is a U.S. talent shortage drive…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that losing the AI race to China could compromise U.S. national security beyond what the defense budget can protect, underscoring the high stakes of the U.S.–Ch…