Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) is leading a handful of senators who are now giving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency until Nov. 10 to answer questions regarding use of its Mobile Fortify facial recognition app to identify individuals for potential deportation.
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Americans for Responsible Innovation welcomed introduction of the “AI-related Job Impacts Clarity Act” by Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Mark Warner (D-VA) as one of multiple potential ways to gather data crucial for forming an appropriate policy response to the industry’s effects on the economy.
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 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.
Comments by OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar about creating a federal “backstop” for private investment in AI infrastructure sparked a backlash and a clarification from the executive, while the leading artificial intelligence firm’s engagements with the government reveal a nuanced view of Washington’s role.
The Alliance for Digital Innovation is calling on the Trump administration to establish technical means -- such as interoperable application programming interfaces -- for more competitive, efficient and high-performance use of artificial intelligence by federal agencies.
The Bank Policy Institute and the Clearing House Association in a joint comment submission to the Treasury Department sketch out a hefty role for artificial intelligence in addressing “illicit finance issues relating to digital assets,” while suggesting ways to craft the appropriate regulatory framework.
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 Consumer Technology Association targets prominent Biden-era initiatives -- including the NIST AI risk management framework -- for review while also urging steps to curb state actions, in a far-ranging response to the Trump White House’s inquiry on regulations posing barriers to U.S. artificial intelligence leadership.
The Information Technology Industry Council emphasizes the need to preempt state regulation of artificial intelligence by crafting a “federal baseline,” in comments for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s inquiry into federal rules that may be blocking AI advances.
The bipartisan leadership of the House select committee on China have introduced the GAIN AI Act to ensure U.S. companies are ahead of Chinese competitors in the queue to purchase advanced artificial intelligence chips, after the Senate included the legislation in its version of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.
Legislation seeking to prohibit artificial intelligence developers from letting children use their chatbots -- along with news of developers proactively implementing age assurance measures to restrict children’s access -- is opposed by industry and got mixed reactions from civil society advocates, in conjunction with privacy and free speech concerns.
The National Association of Manufacturers says its members have embraced artificial intelligence and are eager to deliver on the industrial renaissance promised by the Trump administration, but the group stresses that permitting reform to build out the necessary infrastructure and an all-of-the above energy strategy are essential to reaching the goal.
President Trump has elevated Laura Swett, a self-professed advocate of the “AI revolution,” to the chairmanship of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission weeks after she was confirmed by the Senate to join the body.
The Chamber of Progress has responded to a Trump administration effort to remove regulatory barriers to artificial intelligence advancement with bold calls to reshape copyright laws and facilitate the development of clean energy sources like wind and solar power.
A former White House advisor pointed to elements in the Trump administration’s artificial intelligence action plan that address the concerns of a group of “safety” advocates described by the president’s AI czar David Sacks as an AI “doomer” cult.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce cites a plethora of regulations and policy frameworks that are slowing development and adoption of artificial intelligence, in its comments to the Office of Science and Technology Policy on a White House deregulation initiative.
Thirty-four civil society groups plead with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to maintain “decades” of civil rights and consumer protections as Trump administration officials scour the regulatory landscape for obstacles to development and deployment of artificial intelligence.
The tech group Americans for Responsible Innovation is trying to warn the Trump administration away from easing restrictions on AI chip sales to China, on the eve of a summit between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping.
Consumer demand in the age of artificial intelligence will drive cloud service providers to work together, just as it forced companies to collaborate at the dawn of the internet, predicts Vint Cerf.
The Business Software Alliance is offering the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy a three-step approach to removing regulatory barriers to artificial intelligence adoption -- including issuing interpretive guidance to federal agencies -- in its detailed reply to a request for public feedback on rules that could slow the development and deployment of AI.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has approved OpenAI restructuring itself into a for-profit Public Benefit Corporation under some legal and administrative control of a non-profit organization, with the parties entering into a Memorandum of Understanding that riled a key civil society group.
The U.S. and South Korea have signed a memorandum of understanding on an artificial intelligence-focused “technology prosperity” deal tracking with the agreement signed this week with Japan, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios announced.
The new memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Japan on advanced-technology policy and exports should accelerate enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence while also propelling quantum technologies, according to the Business Software Alliance.
White House science director Michael Kratsios and Japan’s new economic security minister have signed a “technology prosperity” memorandum of understanding, under which the U.S. and Japan will promote artificial intelligence policy frameworks and exports based on an “AI technology ecosystem” built by the two countries.
The Trump administration’s new trade deals with Malaysia and Cambodia, and frameworks for deals with Thailand and Vietnam, contain AI-related technology provisions, according to documents released at the start of President Trump’s Asia tour.
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.
Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic must face music publishers in a jury trial, according to a federal judge whose order cites the plaintiffs’ argument that “guardrails” implemented by the AI company show it knew users of the large language model Claude were violating copyrighted song lyrics.
The Democracy Forward Foundation has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in an attempt to compel four federal agencies to share details on how the Trump administration is using artificial intelligence to expedite its deregulation campaign.
Policymakers should avoid creating policies that treat open-weight or open-source models differently from closed models and instead focus on tracking the origin and development of artificial intelligence technology more generally in order to address serious cybersecurity risks, say advocates for a more open and interoperable AI stack.
The Future of Life Institute, a think tank focused on existential risks of advanced technology, is highlighting a new poll showing strong public support in the United States for “heavy regulation” of AI, as the group circulates a petition calling for a pause in development of artificial general intelligence.
The pro-free market CATO Institute in a new post warns against over-regulation of artificial intelligence in the doctor-patient relationship, citing the strengths and weaknesses of both “AI bots and clinicians” while emphasizing transparency around uses of AI tools and allowing patients to choose.
A new report on capital expenditures, released by the broadband trade association USTelecom, emphasizes the telecom sector’s central position in building out infrastructure critical to artificial intelligence, while urging a stable policy environment to encourage ongoing investment.