Senate decides free rein for AI companies isn't such a good thing
It took a tie-breaking vote from the Vice President JD Vance to pass Trump’s budget reconciliation bill through the Senate on Tuesday, but a controversial section that would have barred states from regulating AI was struck down in a much clearer fashion.
Lawmakers were definitive in their vote, with 99 voting to strip the state AI amendment and just a single Senator — Thom Tillis (R-NC) — voting to keep the moratorium in place. Even Ted Cruz (R-TX), who had wrangled last-minute concessions out of Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) that would have seen her support the state restriction, abandoned his position when Blackburn backed out.
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