WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 03: (L-R) Chairman Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) arrive for a hearing with the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wants hearings to force AT&T and Verizon to disclose how they’ve responded to the hacks to protect telecom networks. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Other signatories of the letter include Meta, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral, NVIDIA, Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies and IBM.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends the 33rd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), part of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, at the Philippine International Convention Center on July 23, 2026 in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Photo by Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)
The GAO found 80 out of 117 rules that “either contain the same kind of reporting requirement applicable to a sector or the same reporting requirement as at least one other regulation.” (Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 24: Michael Kratsios participates in the Winning the AI Race: From Strategy to Execution panel during The Hill & Valley Forum 2026 at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on March 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The Hill & Valley Forum)
While distillation attacks by foreign governments and companies have real national security implications, questions around who ultimately owns the data in AI systems are fraught.
US President Donald Trump (R) and Open AI CEO Sam Altman (L) react during a working lunch meeting of G7 members, partner countries, and artificial intelligence business leaders as part of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. The Trump administration has been moving to regulate AI models for cybersecurity use. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
The messy approach to U.S. AI regulation reflects both the rapid speed of model cyber capabilities and the White House’s “education” over the past two years, experts…