AI Policy and Regulation — Page 4

Oregon has told its state technology chief to work out whether a kill switch for frontier AI is feasible

Governor Tina Kotek says states must move because Washington will not. It is the second west-coast order this month to name a kill switch.

A federal appeals court says the Pentagon may bar Claude because Anthropic will not lift its limits

The court rejected every argument Anthropic made. A dissenting judge said the statute was written for sabotage, not for a company that writes its own limits into its product.

Trump and Xi spent a state visit talking about AI and agreed mainly to leave it alone

Beijing's readout has Xi calling for joint work against misuse. Trump had already said he wants to leave superintelligence "exactly where it is". Nobody proposed a limit.

A bipartisan Senate bill would make AI companies publish their safeguards, with the FTC enforcing it

Coons, Britt, Schatz and Lankford introduced the bill on 23 September. It covers closed and open-weight models alike and now sits with the Commerce Committee.

The NSA is spending billions of dollars a year testing AI models, on classified estimates seen by reporters

Congressional budget scorers put two proposed AI oversight bills at $20 million a year and $36 million over five. The agency's own bill is in a different category.