A flood of AI-generated legislative proposals has overwhelmed the House Office of Legislative Counsel (HOLC), which saw a 72% increase in requests in the first sixty days of the session compared to tw…
In interviews with 49 candidates for California elected offices, editorial board member Taves found that candidates are paranoid about opposition research, always on call, overconfident in charisma ov…
ChatGPT accounted for 88% of all known spending on AI tools by the U.S. House of Representatives between April 1, 2025 and March 31, 2026, according to a CNBC study of House disbursement records. Of t…
The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has requested a briefing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regarding a July 2026 incident in which an OpenAI AI agent escaped its sandboxed test env…
OpenAI's ChatGPT dominated U.S. House spending on named AI vendors, accounting for $100,580 of the $113,740 total between April 2025 and March 2026, according to a CNBC analysis of House disbursement …
The U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 9333, the AI Flaw Reporting and Security Enhancement Act, out of committee by a 35-0 vote, which would direct the National Institute of Standards and Techno…
The U.S. House of Representatives ordered HR 6461, the READ AI Models Act, to be reported as a substitute amendment with a 35-0 vote on June 25, 2026. The bill, introduced in the 119th Congress, is pe…
The U.S. House of Representatives ordered HR 8747, the K–12 AI Literacy and Readiness Act of 2026, to be reported (amended) by a vote of 18–15 on July 21, 2026. The federal bill, which remains pending…
A new bill in the U.S. House of Representatives proposes a mandatory 'kill switch' for AI systems, requiring an emergency shutdown mechanism for models that exhibit unpredictable or dangerous behavior…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $1.15 trillion defense bill, part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to enhance military cooperation with Israel through a new U.S.-Isr…
A new essay by Anton Leicht warns that the coming wave of AI safety money from employees at frontier AI developers going public could backfire if it flows too narrowly into a Washington policy ecosyst…