Tina Nguyen

Axios reports that the Congressional negotiators hammering out the National Defense Authorization Act have grown “cold” on attaching language to the spending bill that would ban state-level AI laws. What hasn’t helped is the latest proposal being shopped around from the White House, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz (R-TX) and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-AL), which reportedly proposes “straight preemption language to override most state-level AI laws without any additional federal regulatory framework”.

As a Special Advisor to President Donald Trump, the billionaire tech venture capitalist has accumulated massive power in setting AI public policy, so naturally, people are going to report on it. But after The New York Times published a blockbuster article detailing his web of personal conflicts, the erstwhile podcast bro posted a long tweet demanding that the Times “abandon” their reporting. Whatever that means.