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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Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns its contract liability caps may not hold against claims over agents that run unsupervised for days. A California suit against OpenAI over agents that hacked Hugging Face now tests who answers when an agent acts on its own.
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Sens. Mark Warner and Ted Cruz filed a bill giving NTIA 18 months to write voluntary telecom security practices, with an optional third-party certification. Adopting them stays each carrier's choice, nearly a year after the mandatory post-breach rules were scrapped.
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A bill that began as a security-or-commodity question now includes a standby power over stablecoin rewards if community banks start losing deposits. The Treasury secretary decides when it fires.
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Mark Warner and four Democratic colleagues have asked for the standards and the legal authorities behind a June directive that took two Anthropic models offline worldwide for two weeks. They want a public framework.
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CNN reports that a Special Operations Command analyst asked a chatbot about a Chinese ship's manifest, then used AI again to write the finding up, and officials caught the error only after aircraft were airborne.
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A 49-50 cloture vote left the crypto market-structure bill short of the 60 needed to open debate, so the SEC/CFTC jurisdictional split it would have created stays unwritten. Roadmaps dated against it now wait on a motion that failed its first vote.
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The procedural motion failed 49 to 50, and with only 53 Republicans in the chamber leadership needs seven votes from a Democratic caucus that supplied none. The negotiations broke down over a divestment trigger.
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Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk have asked Washington to regulate them. The White House answer, and the federal record since 2023, leave product teams designing against documents they wrote themselves.
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Ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote the White House is answering bank lobbyists with a scenario tool, while Fairshake's $30 million to Democrats is already spent and Republicans including John Cornyn weigh a no.
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S.5051 would make AI agents keep real-time records. It would not make the record travel to the retailer or the payment service, which is where a contested agent purchase actually gets settled.
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Virginia's $0.011 per kWh data center electricity tax and New Jersey's fair-share ratepayer class both land in July 2026. Siting and power assumptions written last year are already stale.
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