US Policy

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met US officials as the company backed frontier AI safety oversight and cyber risk evaluations.

US House lawmakers are pushing AI export control measures to close loopholes that allow China to access powerful US AI technology, including Nvidia chips.

House Republicans are pushing for sanctions against Chinese entities that improperly extract outputs from leading US AI models to replicate their capabilities.

President Trump's goal of boosting global sales of American AI chips is being undermined by licensing bottlenecks and staffing attrition at the Bureau of Industry and Security.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirms that Nvidia must adhere to strict guardrails around AI chip sales to China, emphasizing the Biden administration's commitment to maintaining technological leadership while managing national security concerns in semiconductor exports.

Republican budget bill includes controversial provision to ban states from regulating AI for a decade, sparking fierce debate over consumer protection and tech industry oversight.

MIT Technology Review's latest newsletter explores OpenAI's new ChatGPT Health product, which caters to 230 million weekly health-related queries, and the escalating conflict between federal and state-level efforts to regulate artificial intelligence in the United States.