AI Titans Use Clout to Block States in Trump Tax Bill: The Brief

AI Titans Struggle to Use Rising Clout to Block State Laws

AI juggernauts have had success so far in persuading Republicans to include a controversial ban on state regulation of the technology in Donald Trump’s tax bill, highlighting their rise in political influence, Oma Seddiq and Emily Birnbaum report.

• A provision in the House version of the tax bill and current Senate draft would block states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years. In the absence of federal regulation, states over the past few years have enacted dozens of new laws — curbing deepfakes, protecting artists, banning algorithmic discrimination — ...