California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws on Wednesday aimed at protecting workers from AI-related job losses and workplace surveillance, and signed an executive order requiring state agencies to keep …
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Friday directing the convening of a group of world-leading experts to produce a guide for California to reinforce and strengthen its AI sa…
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) blocked Sen. Jon Husted's (R-Ohio) Ratepayer Protection Act in the Senate on Thursday, one day after the House passed the data center power bill 417-3. Heinrich objected th…
Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich blocked the Ratepayer Protection Act in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources after Republican sponsor Sen. Jon Husted sought unanimous consent to pass i…
Democratic consultants in three separate top-tier House races are privately advising battleground candidates to avoid discussing artificial intelligence regulation ahead of November, according to Poli…
The House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act by a 417-3 vote on September 16, sending to the Senate a bill that would require data centers and hyperscalers drawing more than 100 megawatts to cover th…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, by a 417-3 vote on Wednesday, requiring state utility regulators to consider charging large-load electricity consumers…
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, is spearheading House legislation called the AI Kill Switch Act that would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain the technical capab…
OpenAI publicly backed key provisions of the FRONTIER Act (H.R. 9925) on September 15, 2026, endorsing the bill's requirement that licensed independent verification organizations evaluate AI safety. I…
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) dismissed the idea of swiftly adding regulations on the AI industry during remarks with reporters Tuesday morning, as calls mount for more transparency and guardrail…
OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing 'automated shutdown capabilities' for AI systems, according to a company letter reviewed by Reuters, weeks after the company disclosed…
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…