This week decoded
With the 120th Congress in sight, several lawmakers released comprehensive AI frameworks. Congress is also scrutinizing data centers’ environmental compliance, the tax credits behind the AI boom, and the sector’s cybersecurity practices.
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is pursuing its own agenda. Despite its general light touch approach, the White House Super Intelligence Task Force has mandated notification and remediation of any frontier model security incident involving federal government systems. The Administration’s new efforts to enlist private companies to conduct government-authorized cyber operations against transnational criminal groups, as well as to accelerate of quantum capabilities, are slowly coming into focus.
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Congress
Hearings
Congress returns in November after the midterm elections.
Legislation
Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) released a comprehensive AI governance framework based on six principles, including: The federal government should establish safety standards; developers must test and audit their models frequently; companies must be transparent about their products; government and industry should find AI partnerships; kids and workers should be protected; and the United States needs to lead global cooperation on AI. (Press Release)
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) released a broad economic policy five-pillar plan called, “Saving the Middle Class and Restoring the American Dream.” The plan includes pillar 3, titled “Restoring Worker Trust in Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” to create a public service jobs program to allow AI-displaced workers to serve the public, funded by taxing AI. The plan would also require industry and workers to negotiate over AI and create a corporate “robot” tax to discourage job dislocation and maintain company payroll contributions for automated-away jobs. (Press release)
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) released a discussion draft of the Clear Liability for Artificial Intelligence Misconduct (CLAIM) Act to hold developers liable for AI misconduct, allow courts to presume an AI system acted with the state of mind a person taking the same actions would have had, establish a federal cause of action, and set a federal floor in relation to state law. Trahan is accepting comments on the proposal. (Press release)
Reps. Troy Carter (D-LA) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) reintroduced the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Securing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Task Force Act to establish a task force within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Department of Homeland Security dedicated to addressing safety and national security challenges posed by AI. (Text)
Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Transparent Automated Government (TAG) Act to require federal agencies to notify individuals when they are interacting with or subject to critical decisions made using certain AI or other automated systems and to direct agencies to establish a redress process ensuring there is a human review of critical decisions made using AI systems that may negatively affect individuals. (Press release)
Correspondence
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Michael Kratsios, and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought requesting information about the involvement of the artificial intelligence industry in influencing the administration’s AI regulatory framework. (Letter)
Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) led a letter with Sens. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) urging Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to withdraw a proposed rule to eliminate the 30-day mandatory public notice period that allows communities to provide input on proposed facilities, such as data centers, and to disclose any documents showing that the agency communicated with data center owners ahead of the proposal. (Letter)
Whitehouse and Kelly also led letters with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) to Anthropic, AWS, Fermi, Google, Joule, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI urging they commit to maintaining current public participation standards regardless of the EPA rule’s outcome, explain their own policies governing community engagement before constructing data centers, and disclose any documents showing that the companies communicated with EPA, the White House, or other federal agencies ahead of the proposal. (Letter)
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) sent a letter to IRS CEO Frank Bisignano urging the Internal Revenue Service ensure companies are not using the research and experimentation tax credit to subsidize the construction of AI data centers. (Letter)
Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) sent a request to the Joint Committee on Taxation for an analysis of the extent to which OBBBA tax breaks went to data center development. (Letter)
Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Greg Landsman (D-OH), April McClain Delaney (D-MD), and Sarah Elfreth (D-MD) sent a letter to Senate and House Appropriations Committees leadership urging federal funding for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) be increased above the House Committee Report level of $15 million for FY27. (Letter)
Publications and Events
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) released a report accusing Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, CoreWeave, Digital Realty, and Equinix of using nondisclosure agreements to limit public input and seeking tax breaks from states while showing little evidence of significant economic benefit. (Report)
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) published an op-ed in CyberScoop entitled, “Quantum Computers Could Break Today’s Encryption. Washington Needs to Prepare Now.” He says, “China is not standing still. Through my work on the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, I have observed that America retains an enormous innovation advantage. However, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has warned that Beijing is likely pursuing quantum capabilities that could threaten existing encryption. China’s 15th Five-Year Plan identifies quantum technology as a future industry, while three state-backed regional venture funds, totaling roughly $17.5 billion, include quantum among the strategic technologies they are intended to support. The amount specifically allocated to quantum has not been disclosed. Waiting would be a mistake, regardless of China’s current quantum progress. America has repeatedly recognized technological vulnerabilities too late. The nation was slow to understand how foreign adversaries could exploit social media and discovered critical computer system weaknesses only after foreign governments penetrated them. Congress should not repeat those mistakes.” (Op-ed)
The Congressional Research Service published a report entitled “Pentagon-Anthropic Dispute over Autonomous Weapon Systems: Potential Issues for Congress.” (Report)
Trump Administration
White House
Following Anthropic’s notification to the State Department that a testing model had submitted non-immigrant visa applications earlier this year, White House Super Intelligence Force leaders responded calling the incidents an “unauthorized and fraudulent use of government and other systems” and are now mandating AI companies notify the federal government and correct security incidents. A Super Intelligence Force statement said, “This notification and remediation process is not optional… It is a critical national security obligation.” (Axios)
President Trump signed an executive order to rename artificial intelligence as “super intelligence” and require the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (APST) to submit to the President proposed legislative language to establish a federal definition of “Super Intelligence” within 60 days. (Federal Register)
News outlets published the Task Force on Superintelligence (TFSI) charter, which includes a mission to “coordinate between various agencies to undertake such initiatives as necessary to identify and address threats to the public, protect America’s leadership position at the frontier of SI development, ensure the defense of the nation and the prosperity of the American people, and develop plans for responding to SI-enabled threats to our society, while preventing overregulation and regulatory capture that would stifle innovation and competition” and a requirement to “commission a report to study the risks of SI, focusing on potential threats to civil liberties, impacts on the offense-defense balance in cybersecurity, feasibility of biological misuse, incident response, model control and standards, and impacts of overregulation and regulatory capture.” The Task Force must also “review the current protocols and mechanisms in place for labs to provide early warnings and systemized notifications to the government of breaches, hacks, jailbreaks, and other issues, and recommend ways to improve the government’s response capacity under existing authorities.” (Charter)
The White House hosted a summit entitled “Science: A New Golden Age” where the Administration announced a set of science initiatives representing over $6 billion in investments and public-private partnerships across multiple agencies focused on artificial intelligence and quantum computing. (Fact sheet)
At the summit, President Trump gave the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, Lisa Su, Michael Dell, and Satya Nadella. (Press release)
Department of Homeland Security
Acting Executive Director of Homeland Security Investigations John Condon and head of the Department of Justice Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section James Silver were reportedly named to lead the Administration’s initiative to implement the President’s executive order on combating cybercrime through U.S. private sector tech firms waging digital attacks on foreign cyber adversaries. (Politico)
Department of War/Defense
The Office of the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering announced $350 million in new initiatives on national security-related quantum computing capabilities. (Press release)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
The GAO published a report entitled “Quantum Computing: Federal Actions Needed to Prepare for Emerging Cyber Threat.” According to the report, “GAO made 89 recommendations to 23 agencies to, among other things, establish and implement processes to develop inventories of vulnerable cryptography and identify funding for post-quantum cryptography. Twelve agencies agreed with GAO’s recommendations, two partially agreed, seven neither agreed nor disagreed, and one disagreed with three of its four recommendations. GAO maintains that all recommendations are warranted.” (Report)
Noteworthy Quotes
ADMINISTRATION
White House
President Trump posted “The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY!”
Office of Personnel Management Scott Kupor said, “The worst thing for us to do would be to assume a static set of knowledge that allows us to put a regulatory schema in place that then has unintended consequences… Look, we live in D.C. There’s nothing that’s not political in this town. People have different views and that’s totally fine. Our obligation is to demonstrate to the American people that this is good and also that we take the anxieties and the concerns seriously.” He added, “At the end of the day there is no daylight between the president and anyone else ... we need to win.” (Axios)
CONGRESS
White House Super Intelligence Force
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) issued a statement on President Trump appointing Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton to also lead the new Super Intelligence Force, saying, “Artificial intelligence is one of the defining national security challenges of our time, and I welcome the administration recognizing that this technology requires serious, sustained attention at the highest levels of government. But creating a new title is not a substitute for having a coherent strategy. So far, the administration has resisted meaningful safeguards without offering a serious alternative for addressing the national security risks posed by increasingly powerful AI systems. We still do not know what authority this new role will have, whether it will include developing safety standards or reviewing the most advanced models, or how it fits into the administration’s broader approach to AI. That lack of clarity is especially concerning as leading AI companies themselves are confronting increasingly capable systems that can evade safeguards and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities. There is real bipartisan interest in Congress in getting this right. I hope this appointment is an opportunity for the administration to move beyond slogans and toward a serious, coordinated national strategy for AI. As I have said repeatedly, that coordination must include the Intelligence Community, where some of our nation’s foremost technical experts on cyber reside. And as Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I look forward to working with Director Clayton on ensuring the United States stays ahead of China and other adversaries, strengthening the security and resilience of our most advanced AI systems, and establishing rigorous testing and safeguards so that increasingly powerful systems remain secure, reliable, and under human control.” (Press release)
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) posted “The American people want smart regulation on AI, and they’re rightly concerned about safety and transparency. Giving this job to the Director of National Intelligence indicates - again - that Trump takes neither the risks of AI nor the DNI’s national security role seriously.”
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said, “The more that the Trump administration says ‘we’re going to do a hands-off approach,’ the more the states are going to come in and fill that vacuum.” (Punchbowl)
AI Bailout
On any future bailout for the AI industry, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said, “If there’s any AI company that expects some type of bailout, they better start coming up with other plans.” (Punchbowl)
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said, “This is not something that Congress needs to go in and be able to manage.” (Punchbowl)
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said, “One of the theories that I’ve heard, and I’m trying to evaluate, is maybe it’s not the banks that are most at risk. Maybe it’s the investment houses that have put so much money into this, and also have money in pension funds. And our pension funds now are going to be at risk of collapse. Are public employees going to be coming to Congress to say you’ve got to save these big investment houses, because if they go under, we go under?” (Punchbowl)
Schiff also said, “The risk to our financial system, the risk that we’re asked to bail out entities again because they’re too big to fail — there’s not going to be much appetite for that.” (Punchbowl)
Data Centers
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) posted “Americans: I’m worried about data centers driving up my electricity bills and AI threatening my job security. Trump: If you don’t call AI Super Intelligence, you are the enemy!”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted “On Tuesday, GovKathyHochul RepPatRyanNY and I had the opportunity to speak with farming communities and spotlight a New York State moratorium on data center construction. We must hold Big Tech companies accountable for maintaining our air, water, and climate quality.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) posted “Trump and Republicans handed YOUR tax dollars to Big Tech companies like Meta and Amazon. So how much of your money is subsidizing their data centers and AI spending? You deserve the truth. I’m pushing these companies – the same ones that are donating to Trump – for answers.”
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) posted “We need to make clear to the public that corruption at the top is taking money directly out of their pockets. When Trump gains, you lose. For example, electricity bills keep climbing. That’s because AI companies are building data centers that guzzle power, and President Trump is giving them tax breaks to do it.”
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) posted “RepSuhas and I recently sat down with ASP for a productive discussion about building the computing infrastructure America needs to lead the next generation of innovation. America can lead in AI. We can build the infrastructure to power it. And we can do it responsibly.”
AI Safety
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) said, “We don’t have to accept the greatest dangers AI poses in order to reap the benefits.” (Politico)
In expressing support for kill switches for artificial intelligence models, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) said, “That’s certainly one thing we absolutely need to do. If [a model] goes rogue, you can stop it.” (Punchbowl)
On a kill switch, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) said, “It doesn’t actually slow down innovation. Just make sure that if your AI model goes berserk, you can shut it down.” (Punchbowl)
On the proposal from Reps. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan (D-MA) on mandatory evaluations for frontier companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) said, “Sections of that bill, we can work together on.” (Punchbowl)
Guthrie also said, “Everybody wants to just kind of stop, and China’s not going to stop. So we have to say, ‘all right, what’s the immediate threat? Cybersecurity, bioterrorism,’ and work with that.” (Punchbowl)
Rep. April McClain Delaney (D-MD) posted “When AI can be used to develop bioweapons, Congress cannot afford to sit back. I’m pushing for clear standards, early detection, and strong guardrails. We need to invest in our scientists and make safety a priority. Our health and national security depend on it.”
Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) posted “InsideAIPolicy: ‘Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN).. has written to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and [OMB] Director Russell Vought praising their [AI] deployment policies while urging them to focus on insider threats to AI systems -- including.. current risk mitigation efforts.’”
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) posted “When AI undermines our national security, a pinky swear won’t cut it. We need commonsense guardrails before it’s too late.”
Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) posted “The creation of the new White House task force on advanced AI is an important step toward ensuring America remains the global leader in this transformative technology while addressing the risks posed by the most advanced systems. Our bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence made clear that getting this balance right requires a risk-based approach that addresses serious threats without stifling American innovation. That same principle is at the heart of my bipartisan FRONTIER Act, and I look forward to working with the Administration as it develops its recommendations.”
Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-CA) posted “AI is developing rapidly, with the potential to benefit many sectors of our economy and society. As these systems grow more capable, Congress needs to understand the risks they present and ensure developers have appropriate processes to identify and address them. I recently joined CBS Los Angeles to discuss how my bipartisan FRONTIER Act would establish guardrails for the most advanced AI models without stifling American innovation.”
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) posted “How do we stop AI from attacking us? By embracing AI security. As AI becomes more powerful, the answer isn’t to slow down American innovation. It’s to make sure security advances right alongside it. nvidia’s OpenShell is a great example of that approach: building stronger protections around AI systems while still giving developers room to innovate. America should lead the AI race — and we should lead in securing it, too.”
Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) posted “With the growing number of incidents involving rogue AI agents, Congress must pass commonsense safeguards to protect the public. Last week, I officially became a cosponsor of the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, a bill to establish third-party protections against rogue AI agents. We need safeguards that ensure AI remains under human control.”
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) posted “I hope that the new administration’s new AI task force takes their responsibilities seriously. Regardless, Congress needs to act and put in place clear guardrails and rules of the road — including mandatory preemployment testing to protect our national security, cyber security, biosecurity, and critical infrastructure.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) posted “Mr. Altman: What ‘bad things’ should we accept to advance AI? Losing tens of millions of jobs? A mass surveillance state? A mental health crisis for our kids? A global financial crisis? Mass extinction? Let’s not wait to find out. Pause advanced AI NOW!”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) posted “NEW: Reports reveal Trump is letting Big Tech write its own AI rules. OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic said the rules were too strict. Trump made them voluntary. Then Musk and Zuckerberg said they were too harsh. Trump cut the 90-day review to 30 days. I’m pushing for guardrails.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) posted “According to a new Quinnipiac poll: 91% of Americans think it’s important to put guardrails on AI; 73% worry AI could threaten humanity; 72% oppose new data centers in their community. So what have Republicans in Congress done to regulate AI over the past two years? NOTHING.”
Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH) posted “Congress needs to pass a national framework on AI. How our bills on AI and data centers will protect our communities”
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) posted “We must immediately do more to address the existential threats that dangerous AI systems already pose. I’m leading my colleagues in urging an immediate and significant increase in funding for AI safety. The $15 million currently proposed for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) is ridiculously inadequate to evaluate increasingly powerful AI systems.”
AI Accountability
Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) posted “When someone breaks the law and hurts you, you can take them to court. That shouldn’t change just because the wrongdoer is an AI agent. Developers have already built systems capable of acting on their own and causing real damage. The CLAIM Act will ensure they answer for what their systems do.”
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) posted “AI is changing everyday life for everyday people, yet they still don’t have a seat at the table. We need real oversight and accountability that puts people first. Innovation cannot come at the expense of the people it’s supposed to serve.”
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) posted “Former FTC Chair Lina Khan is absolutely right. We need to enforce existing laws on the books so AI companies and executives don’t continue to operate without accountability. Congress must also regulate AI just like we have historically done with other emerging industries.”
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted “Or we could hold you accountable for the harm you cause. Just because the Trump admin won’t lift a finger doesn’t mean big AI should get away with putting profits over people.”
Privacy and Security
Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) posted “68,000 people exposed. Hackers with an open-source AI tool. No country can fight this alone. The U.S. and China must cooperate on AI security now, before our financial system is next.”
Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) posted “Flock cameras are a breach of privacy and cannot continue to go unregulated. That being said, this recent anti-Flock push by frontline Democrats to get something done on the matter feels more to me like a ploy before midterms than it does an actual want to protect Americans.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) posted “Flock cameras track your every move. It’s creepy, dangerous, and raises serious civil rights concerns. Big Tech is pushing us toward an AI surveillance state. Americans deserve privacy, not unchecked surveillance. Ban Flock NOW.”
Rep. Val Hoyle (D-OR) posted “Innovation should never come at the expense of workers. The proposed sale of Spirit Airlines’ internal data to Google is raising alarm bells around workers’ privacy. I’m calling on Google to implement strict safeguards to protect workers’ sensitive information in this transaction.”
Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) posted “Innovation cannot come at the expense of workers’ privacy. SenWarren and I are leading 119 of our colleagues from both parties and both chambers of Congress in urging Spirit Airlines and Google to protect workers’ sensitive personal information from identification, profiling, and misuse. Nearly 1,000 former Spirit Airlines employees in Nevada could be impacted. Their personal information should not be sold to train AI without strong, enforceable safeguards in place.”
AI in Health Care
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) posted “The old attacks (costs too much, not being able to see the same doctor, etc.) don’t work anymore because private insurance is denying care, using AI to overrule doctors, and giving Americans surprise bills on top of already unaffordable co-pays, premiums and deductibles.”
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) posted “I joined TGowdySC to talk about what AI can do for patients. As an ER doctor, I can tell you the paperwork and the delay are not what get people better. Used right, AI gives doctors back time with the patient and helps catch what a tired human eye can miss. The goal is simple. Put patients and their doctors in charge, and let the technology serve them.”
Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) posted “Since Trump’s AI Medicare experiment began, it has led to needless delays & denials in care for Washington seniors. New documents reveal the administration wants to apply it to cancer treatments & air ambulances next – things that cannot wait days for answers. I’m moving to force the release of information about this program so we can finally get the whole story.”
Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) posted “AI shouldn’t decide whether you get the care your doctor ordered. But under the Trump administration’s WISeR initiative, that’s exactly what’s happening. AZ physicians report spending hours on the phone overturning wrongful denials while patients are stuck waiting for treatment.”
Workforce
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) posted “AI companies are making a fortune right now. Working people can’t get left behind. My plan is simple: tax AI companies and data centers, then use that money to put Americans to work in a New Deal-style public service jobs program. We did it before and it helped build this country. We can do it again.”
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) posted “AI is about to change a lot, and we’re not ready for it. We have to get ready, fast, and we can’t leave working people behind. That’s why I’m also pushing for a New Deal-style public service jobs program, funded by taxing AI, that would put people to work helping their communities—from caregiving to neighborhood construction to little league coaching. And it’s why I’m pushing for a “robot” tax to put a stop to big business shifting jobs away from humans.”
Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) posted “A year ago, ZitoSalena and I went underground at the Enlow Fork Mine in my native Washington County. I saw how AI and modern safety gear have changed the job. This corner of Pennsylvania has powered America for generations, and it’s not done yet.”
Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) posted “When implemented responsibly, AI lets us do more with the same workforce—not the same work with fewer people. We need better data on how these technologies are changing the workforce so we can prepare Americans for the new jobs & economic growth AI will create.”
Miscellaneous
On passage of AI regulation next year, Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) said he was “confident that will change, and that the next speaker, the next majority leader, the next vice chair of the Democratic Caucus will be very committed to putting something on the ground.” (Politico)
On canceled donations to prominent AI PACs, Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) said, “The tables have turned on AI preemption, on data centers, on AI safety, and now on AI super PACs. The people are beating back the money.” Casar added, “We’ll hold them accountable if they start to try to hide their money because they realize their money being out in public is toxic.” (Punchbowl)
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) posted “Congratulations to my good friend jensenhuang on receiving the National Medal of Science! Jensen’s visionary leadership at NVIDIA has helped position America at the forefront of artificial intelligence and advanced computing, strengthening our technological competitiveness and national security. A well-deserved honor for a true leader in American innovation!”
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) posted “I wrote in CyberScoop about a growing threat Washington is overlooking: quantum computers could break the encryption protecting our financial records, military communications, and national security secrets. Foreign adversaries can steal that data today and decrypt it later. Congress must act now.”
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) posted “Trump playing silly word games while wars and tariffs punish everyday folks? Plus . . . it should be ‘anyone WHO uses the term’ not ‘THAT uses the term.’ Unless he’s including bots and AI agents as the ENEMY now. Paranoid sad sack.”
Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) posted “It doesn’t even need to be AI: legacy media like CNN journos find any reason to make excuses for terrorists.”
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted “Artificial Intelligence is a term historically reserved for politicians.”
Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) posted “Romance scams cost Americans over $1 BILLION every single year, and with AI, these scams are getting even more sophisticated. That’s why I passed the Romance Scam Prevention Act to hold bad actors accountable and protect Coloradans. I’m proud this is my 6th bill passed into law this Congress — proving you can stand strong against this administration and still get important work done.”
What I’m Reading This Week
Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI, Christine Mui and Brendan Bordelon, Politico.
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