US Senate committee overseeing interstate commerce, transportation, communications, and technology policy.
Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a bill giving a federal board 45-day pre-release access to frontier AI models as six AI firms signed Trump's voluntary accord. Until Congress returns, oversight of those models runs through auditors and board committees the companies agreed to appoint.
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The House adjourned on September 17 and does not return until after the November midterms. For anyone budgeting AI compliance, that leaves California-style state statutes and the EU AI Act as the rules that bind.
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The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act cleared the House on Wednesday and now goes to the Senate, where 60 senators have already co-sponsored a version. Four automakers would have to refit hardware they took out.
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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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Jared Cooney Horvath told the Senate Commerce Committee that Utah's NAEP scores turned down after 2014, the year a computer-adaptive state test made digital infrastructure a requirement for every school in it.
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Ted Cruz says he is writing AI catastrophic-risk legislation with John Thune and Amy Klobuchar, while on the same day the Pentagon's chief technology officer and President Trump both dismissed the extinction warnings behind it.
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Dae'Quan Wright left a three-year, $3,125,000 Eagles deal, got waived, and won a restraining order that clears his way to LSU, so the SEC's week-old ban on former professionals now binds only where nobody has sued.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal want answers by September 1 on a control group of about 10% of users, including minors, that did not get an anti-rabbit-hole algorithm change.
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Blackburn and Blumenthal set a 1 September deadline for 13 questions. The broadest one asks for every US algorithmic experiment where TikTok withheld a protection, and how many minors were caught in it.
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