Technology leader Google calls for focusing on “strategic investments,” pushing scientific breakthroughs and building up “security and resilience,” in its comments on top priorities for the Trump administration’s update to the national research strategy for artificial intelligence.
June 18, 2025
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Senate Commerce ranking member Maria Cantwell (D-WA), who is leading opposition to inclusion of a moratorium on state artificial intelligence regulation in the tax-and-spending reconciliation measure, sent materials to the Senate parliamentarian June 18 making the case that the state AI freeze doesn’t belong in the budget legislation.
Inaction at the federal level has created the imperative for states to craft safeguards around rapidly advancing artificial intelligence frontier models, according to New York state Assemblymember Alex Bores (D), who along with state Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D) sponsors an AI bill that recently cleared the legislature amid intense opposition from tech industry groups.
Legislation by Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) is receiving measured plaudits from two groups on different sides of a debate over state-level legislation with similar aims of improving insight into the performance of artificial intelligence models.
The Senate has confirmed on a 53-45 vote the nomination of Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, filling a critical Republican vacancy to advance the agenda of Chairman Brendan Carr.
The Congressional Research Service in a new “legal sidebar” for lawmakers delves into the issues facing courts and the U.S. Copyright Office on artificial intelligence, while boiling down a handful of considerations for Congress.
The Professional Services Council, representing an important swath of federal technology contractors, urges the National Science Foundation to support a change in tax treatment for research and development expenses in comments on the Trump administration’s national artificial intelligence research strategy.
Amazon emphasizes the need to support standards development as well as “long-term, fundamental research areas” in its comments to Trump administration officials drafting an update to the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright and lawmakers concurred that electricity supply is a linchpin to powering U.S. success in global competition with China over artificial intelligence, but bipartisan agreement was short-lived at an Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on the Department of Energy’s budget.
Developers of frontier artificial intelligence models and their allies in and out of government are making a concerted push to overcome negative associations with the technology toward greater uptake for national security use cases.
Building power-hungry data centers to support the artificial intelligence industry on site of energy generation -- particularly from nuclear reactors -- is a responsible way to ensure U.S. dominance in the field and realize a vision decades in the making, according to witness testimony and lawmakers on the House Science Committee.
A 60-group coalition organized by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights says the House-passed moratorium on state AI laws and regulation, and the adjusted version offered in the Senate, are both beyond redemption and that the idea should be abandoned as Congress considers a massive reconciliation package.
Senate Commerce ranking member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and the panel’s Democrats are demanding a committee vote on Chairman Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) proposed contribution to the reconciliation bill implementing President Trump’s tax and spending agenda, which includes a 10-year moratorium on state artificial intelligence laws and regulation.
A new coalition led by prominent tech policy and digital rights organizations is urging lawmakers to back protections for industry whistleblowers who identify artificial intelligence “risks and harms,” in a letter to the leaders of key congressional committees.
White House AI czar David Sacks attributed a proliferation of state bills for governing the rise of artificial intelligence to a wealthy “cult” of “effective altruists” within Silicon Valley, while asserting scant evidence for risks associated with the technology and warning about AI diffusion by China if the U.S. overly regulates it.
Tech policy veteran Norma Krayem says President Trump’s executive order on cybersecurity demonstrates that advancing uses of artificial intelligence for cyber defense has endured as a key priority from one administration to the next.
President Trump’s June 6 cybersecurity executive order hits on issues raised by security pros in comments submitted earlier this year on the White House artificial intelligence action plan, including addressing AI-related software vulnerabilities, as well as comments in a separate inquiry on how the government can help meet research needs.
The Software & Information Industry Association and industry-based Alliance for Trust in AI are among the business groups throwing their support behind the Trump administration’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, saying it creates the right mission for the revamped safety institute and that it appropriately remains at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The federal government should fund research on “distillation,” a controversial form of artificial intelligence training, given the industry’s increasing demands for computation resources, according to the Chamber of Progress.
A representative of the AI developer DeepSeek noted the company’s Chinese roots in identifying a need to build trust as one of the main reasons the company decided to make its AI model open-weight, in addition to a desire to hasten innovation.
The Americans for Responsible Innovation, which has been spearheading grassroots work against congressional Republicans’ efforts to impose a moratorium on state-level artificial intelligence laws, has issued a report showing that a 10-year freeze on such regulation would also block children’s online safety and other measures.
The Compute Exchange Council is working with NVIDIA to convene stakeholders toward establishing interoperability standards for commoditizing the coveted hardware necessary to power artificial intelligence.
House China Select Committee ranking member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) slammed NVIDIA over indications that the company intends to establish a research center to design computer chips for the Chinese market, but emphasized a need to prioritize human and technological resources at home instead of trying to restrict China’s advances in AI.
The Information Technology Industry Council says the Trump administration’s “America First” technology strategy can be strengthened through global leadership in areas such as artificial intelligence standards-setting, in advance of an AI stakeholder meeting in Paris.
Tech mogul Eric Schmidt advocated for monitoring the location of semiconductors crucial to the development of artificial intelligence while acknowledging the limitations of the position, in arguing the move is important for the U.S. to beat China in a race to market the technology to the rest of the world.
The Business Software Alliance calls for expanding the National AI Research Resource, continued support for the AI Safety Institute and a focus on science, standards and global coordination, in comments on the Trump administration’s plan to update the U.S. artificial intelligence research strategy.
Two telecommunications companies used to circulate an impersonation of former President Biden from a spoofed telephone number in the lead-up to the last election have acknowledged the use of artificial intelligence could have intimidated voters and agreed to implement a program to prevent such transmissions going forward.
Following a judge’s order granting preliminary certification of collective action in a discrimination lawsuit against Workday, the human resources giant has agreed to disclose enterprise users of an artificial intelligence tool toward determining members of the would-be class action case.
Commissioners of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board -- which can investigate and report on controversial applications of artificial intelligence by the government -- and supporters celebrated reinstatement after the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled their dismissal illegal, but a related Supreme Court decision now looms.
Tech leader OpenAI is asking a federal district court to revise a previous order to allow the company to take data management actions that would in effect delete information sought by the New York Times and other plaintiffs, in a landmark copyright infringement lawsuit.
The Congressional Research Service offers lawmakers a range of approaches to artificial intelligence in a lengthy new report on regulating AI, citing options including leveraging existing governance frameworks or expanding agencies’ regulatory authority, as well as examining prospects for global collaboration.
Public-private partnerships can be beneficial for building public trust and interest in artificial intelligence technology, but OpenAI plans to limit its participation to three such initiatives -- beyond one already underway at Los Alamos National Laboratory -- because they are also like leaving money on the table, according to a senior executive with the tech company.
The Trump administration is requesting funding to continue operations of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, or NAIRR, at the National Science Foundation, advancing a Biden-era pilot project that garnered strong support from industry amid the prospect of deep cuts under President Trump.
The nonprofit American Society for AI calls on the Trump administration to oversee a $2.2 trillion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure over five years, in comments on the upcoming the national AI research strategy that go well beyond suggestions for the R&D domain.