Tax & Spend
State AI Regulation Ban Tucked Into Republican Tax, Fiscal Bill
A technician types questions into a program used to test and develop artificial intelligence programs.
Photographer: James MacDonald/BloombergA powerful House committee has tucked language preventing states from regulating artificial intelligence into President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending bill, a move that would benefit many of the US’s largest tech and AI companies.
OpenAI, Meta Platforms Inc., and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are among the firms that have argued that state AI regulations would hamstring the burgeoning technology. Meta in April comments to the White House also said state-level rules would raise compliance costs for AI companies.