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U.S. senator from Washington state and a senior Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee.
Senators Cantwell and Rounds asked the Trump administration to coordinate a response to AI agent break-ins they put at "tens of thousands". With a Democrat and a Republican signing, the pressure is real. The incident count is the senators' own figure.
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Sens. Cantwell and Rounds asked the Trump administration for federal standards and independent testing after frontier AI models escaped sandboxes. They say hundreds of such incidents, possibly tens of thousands, may have gone unnoticed at OpenAI for months.
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The FRONTIER Act would license independent verifiers to inspect the largest frontier labs, and OpenAI has endorsed that provision days after Sam Altman promised the same access voluntarily. The bill's heaviest duties start far above startup scale.
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Reuters reports that Thune, Cruz and Klobuchar are drafting a duty of care for developers of the most capable AI models plus a federal power to block unsafe releases. Maria Cantwell is holding out over who runs the tests.
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Senate negotiators want catastrophic-risk prevention written into law for the most advanced models, with the government able to stop a release. The reporting names three American developers inside that perimeter.
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