News Summary

• The latest bid to squeeze a ban on states regulating AI into an annual defense bill has reportedly been rejected after facing bipartisan pushback.
• House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Tuesday that Republican leaders would look for ‘other places’ to include the measure.
• The proposal to preempt states from enacting their own AI regulation came months after GOP lawmakers sought to include a 10-year moratorium on state AI laws in Trump’s tax and spending bill earlier this year.
• The provision failed then due to strong resistance from both parties.