Overview
- GOP lawmakers working with tech lobbyists drafted language to add broad state preemption on AI to the must-pass NDAA, with the text still not public.
- The White House issued an executive order launching the Genesis Mission, and a separate draft order circulating would create a DOJ AI Litigation Task Force and could tie federal broadband funds to state AI policies.
- Thirty-six state attorneys general sent a bipartisan letter urging Congress not to insert an AI moratorium into the defense bill, citing scams, mental health harms, and child protection concerns.
- A bipartisan group of 280 state legislators also opposed preemption, noting ongoing state privacy frameworks and new measures such as California’s Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act.
- The Senate previously removed a long-term moratorium in a 99–1 vote, and the outcome of the renewed effort remains uncertain as lobbying and new pro-AI political spending press for a federal standard.