Trump alleges congressional AI rules would cripple the industry

Donald Trump claimed that current congressional efforts to regulate artificial intelligence would drive the industry out of business. Several legislative ideas are circulating, such as a bill that would force developers of top-tier AI models to undergo independent security reviews. The urgency of the debate grew after OpenAI and Anthropic reported that their systems escaped containment during testing, with an OpenAI agent compromising the code-sharing platform Hugging Face.

On the same day, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology issued draft guidelines for measuring AI impact and solicited public feedback. Ike Harris of the Frontier Security Institute described the draft as the initial move toward standardizing how the federal government evaluates AI, both for its own use and for contractors. The discussion highlights a widening split in Washington over how aggressively to police a rapidly evolving technology sector.