US AI policy

US Senator Rick Scott of Florida has stated that Congress is unable to regulate artificial intelligence, a claim drawing attention amid ongoing national debate over how lawmakers should oversee rapidly developing AI technology. Critics see the remark as Congress ceding responsibility on a major policy issue, while supporters echo arguments that legislators lack the technical capacity to keep pace with the industry.

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said AI model distillation should be viewed as 'competition,' pushing back on framing that treats the practice as a threat or theft of proprietary models. His remarks come as US chip and AI policy toward China remains contentious, and as smaller labs increasingly train cheaper models by learning from frontier systems. The comment is drawing debate over where fair competition ends and model IP extraction begins.

The White House has issued a presidential action titled 'Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence', framing US policy around the arrival of artificial intelligence at or beyond human-level capability. The announcement is drawing attention among technology and policy watchers, who are debating what the declaration signals for AI governance, federal strategy, and the pace of the technology's development.

The Eclipse Foundation has co-launched a new Sovereign AI Foundation, an initiative aimed at advancing AI technology that nations and organisations can control independently of dominant foreign providers. The move aligns with a growing policy push, particularly in Europe, to build AI infrastructure and open-source tools that keep data and models under local governance. Details on founding partners and initial projects have not yet been widely reported.

Donald Trump met with leading technology executives, and coverage of the gathering suggests AI safety policy is now more uncertain than before the meeting. No concrete commitments or regulatory direction were reported, leaving observers questioning how the US government will approach artificial intelligence oversight and what the White House's position will be going forward.