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Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey, elected in 2024 after serving in the House of Representatives; works on tech and trade policy.
Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a bill giving a federal board 45-day pre-release access to frontier AI models as six AI firms signed Trump's voluntary accord. Until Congress returns, oversight of those models runs through auditors and board committees the companies agreed to appoint.
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Senator Ruben Gallego, a possible 2028 presidential candidate, proposes a 10% excise tax on data center revenues and an end to their tax breaks. He would pass it in a party-line budget bill that needs a Democratic House, Senate and White House in 2029, so owners have a figure to model years before it could apply.
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Anthropic's IPO prospectus warns its contract liability caps may not hold against claims over agents that run unsupervised for days. A California suit against OpenAI over agents that hacked Hugging Face now tests who answers when an agent acts on its own.
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Trump has told the Pentagon to substantially reduce exercises with Seoul. Last time drills were suspended, the bill for 28,500 US troops was reopened about seven months later.
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Last year a single senator could force the Senate to vote on Canada tariffs under the emergency powers law. Sen. Tim Kaine says the nearly century-old statute Trump used this time has no such motion.
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Ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote the White House is answering bank lobbyists with a scenario tool, while Fairshake's $30 million to Democrats is already spent and Republicans including John Cornyn weigh a no.
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A bipartisan bill to make allies mirror US chip-equipment controls is set for the Senate defense bill. The regulators of ASML and Tokyo Electron are the real audience.
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