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Democratic U.S. Representative from New Jersey who sits on committees shaping technology and AI policy legislation.
Members of Congress have introduced at least three bills since late July to keep AI systems under human shutdown control. The duty sits with model developers, while a switch-off would disrupt the companies whose workflows run on those models.
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The GUARD Act, passed by the House on Tuesday, would let five existing Justice Department grant programs pay for the analysts, training and blockchain tracing software that local police say they lack in scam cases.
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Josh Gottheimer's AI Cyber Defense Act, co-sponsored by two Republicans and two Democrats, would have CISA procure frontier models for small water systems and utilities through 2031. Appropriators still have to fund it.
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Wired reports the FINRA-style oversight framework has sat in limbo since executives called Trump in August. Product teams are left with an embedded-auditor bill and no House voting days before the midterms.
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At Tuesday's House Financial Services hearing the Treasury Secretary called a liability waiver a "blank check" and said the labs want one while also asking the industry to slow down. He urged both houses to refuse.
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The Trump administration is reportedly working out how to bar Chinese renters from GPU capacity in Vietnam and Singapore, which moves the compliance surface from owning hardware to access that US law has never governed well.
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