The Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council during the recent government shutdown advanced several infrastructure projects important to powering artificial intelligence development, the council announced.
November 19, 2025
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The General Services Administration on Nov. 19 announced an agreement with AI firm Perplexity to provide federal agencies with “research and drafting capabilities at deeply discounted pricing,” in the first deal for artificial intelligence services unveiled since the recent end of the government shutdown.
President Trump has firmly pressed his thumb on the scale in favor of a moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence, as supporters and opponents advance their arguments on social media and internal disagreement continues among Republicans.
Microsoft calls for regulatory reforms to help propel open source artificial intelligence development, in comments for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy inquiry on removing barriers to U.S. dominance in AI, while also putting in a strong pitch for greater use of regulatory sandboxes.
Members of the Republican majority on the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigation expressed a need for guardrails on artificial intelligence chatbots and heard testimony on a need for transparency, among other recommendations.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s examination division will continue to focus on artificial intelligence as a top priority, a year after the Biden administration emphasized the issue in the division’s annual agenda for the first time.
Alex Bores, the New York Assembly member who wrote the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act, or RAISE Act, opposed by several tech-industry trade associations, almost welcomed being targeted by a new, high-profile industry super PAC in his campaign for an open U.S. House seat.
Congress is unlikely anytime soon to pass an artificial intelligence governance bill that would preempt state regulation, says Ryan Hauser, research fellow at the free-market Mercatus Institute, who argues lawmakers should focus on advancing implementation of the Trump administration’s artificial intelligence action plan and on improving AI cybersecurity.
Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) and Democratic colleagues are calling for proactive steps to ensure “U.S. households” are not stuck with the bill for infrastructure upgrades needed to feed power-hungry AI data centers, in a letter to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Laura Swett.
A Council on Foreign Relations group led by senior officials from the last two administrations, and the current head of Lockheed Martin, in a new report calls for creating an economic security center within the Department of Commerce as one way to stay ahead of China on artificial intelligence.
The Information Technology Industry Council has endorsed a bipartisan proposal by House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) and Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) that would streamline federal permitting for energy projects related to artificial intelligence infrastructure, with a markup expected soon.
Federal departments and agencies have reopened their doors after a history-making 43-day shutdown and stakeholders say officials must make up for lost time in crucial artificial intelligence policy areas, including defining federal-state boundaries for regulation, promoting job growth and re-engaging with the government’s AI providers.
Chatbot safety is the first issue on the announced agenda for the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the aftermath of the government shutdown, as the oversight subcommittee plans to examine risks and safeguards at a Nov. 18 hearing.
Federal legislation to govern artificial intelligence would likely pre-empt state laws on the issue, codify a sectoral approach and require some level of risk management, or testing and evaluation or both, based on recent remarks by Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Ted Lieu (D-CA).
The Bank Policy Institute says banking regulators must “actively encourage” the use of artificial intelligence -- and consider the risks from failing to embrace the technology -- in comments on AI-related regulatory reform to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Reliance on existing laws, light-touch regulation and industry-driven standards are key to U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence, the Computer & Communications Industry Association says in comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on possible regulatory roadblocks to AI advances.
White House artificial intelligence and crypto advisor David Sacks says there is no discussion or need for a “federal bailout” of the AI sector amid its massive planned expenditures on infrastructure, after comments by an OpenAI executive triggered extensive pushback on social media.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation is urging the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to back a Transportation Department framework in support of artificial intelligence-driven automated vehicles, in comments on regulatory efforts that could help propel AI development and deployment.
Brookings Institution researchers are hoping to bolster cost-benefit analyses by local leaders with a new report detailing the dynamics of a data-center buildout that federal officials are counting on to win the global race for artificial intelligence leadership.
Federal Judge Ona Wang should vacate her recent order directing OpenAI to produce 20 million logs from ChatGPT users for potential evidence of copyright violations as claimed by the New York Times, the AI developer argued in a new filing and blog post citing privacy concerns.
A “2026 outlook” report from Moody’s Ratings says massive ongoing investment in artificial intelligence is powering a positive outlook for technology companies globally next year, but cautions that risks are growing as well, including “concerns” over returns to investors, environmental issues, “regulatory fragmentation” and cyber threats.
In a letter demanding OpenAI CEO Sam Altman immediately and indefinitely withdraw Sora2 from public access, Public Citizen cc’d the Federal Trade Commission and oversight committees in the House and Senate in detailing a series of legal, ethical and societal harms associated with the company’s new video generator.
A report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation says tightening controls on AI chip sales to China would damage U.S. semiconductor companies and boomerang against the United States’ efforts to slow China’s artificial intelligence advances.
The Trump administration should establish and promote standards development and evaluations for artificial intelligence, especially through the National Institute of Standards and Technology, instead of tearing down coordinated federal guidance on the development and deployment of the technology, according to the Alliance for Trust in AI.
Getty Images pointed to a silver lining from the loss of its copyright claim against Stability AI in the United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice, indicating its intention of applying a crucial point from the decision to a parallel case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, regarding the use of copyrighted works for training AI models.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) in a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says “anti-diversion technology” can be a key tool in preventing the illegal transshipment of advanced artificial intelligence chips through Malaysia, following President Trump’s agreements with that country in a recent visit.
The Tech Justice Law Project and Social Media Victims Law Center have partnered in filing seven new cases against OpenAI, alleging wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, product liability and others claims in California state courts.
The e-commerce giant Amazon is suing Perplexity AI for allegedly endangering its users’ cybersecurity and damaging its individually curated experience by failing to disclose “agents” as artificial intelligence entities, but Perplexity says it’s all just to keep feeding users advertising.
The social media platform Reddit is using the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to sue Perplexity AI, along with three web scraping companies, over how they obtained content created by its users to market their artificial intelligence products and development tools.
U.S. district court Judge Jed Rakoff has closed the National Retail Federation’s case against New York Attorney General Letitia James, dismissing with prejudice the industry’s motion for a preliminary injunction based on claims that the state’s Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act violates the First Amendment.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s risk management framework for developing, deploying and evaluating artificial intelligence systems remains a crucial tool for self-governance, which will be necessary regardless of the regulatory landscape emerging across the country, according to Miriam Vogel, the former chair of a groundbreaking commission on AI.
A report from the Information Technology Industry Council points to existing frameworks and best practices -- and industry leadership on standards -- as policymakers craft a national artificial intelligence strategy that will define the federal government’s approach to quickly evolving agentic AI technology.
A report from the Center for Democracy and Technology says artificial intelligence products developed for use in K-12 education are plagued by a lack of transparency that raises questions over effectiveness, value and harms, and offers guidance to tech providers and school administrators on improving insights into “edtech” services.
A new report from Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology finds six types of “harm mechanisms” are accompanying the growing deployment of artificial intelligence and urges “comprehensive” incident tracking and mandatory reporting to get ahead of the threats.