Overview
- At the Hill & Valley Forum on Tuesday, lawmakers and tech leaders cast the AI race as a contest with China and rallied behind a single federal approach.
- The White House proposed one national standard for AI rules to replace state-by-state laws, a move cheered by conservative voices as key to outpacing China.
- Sen. Jim Banks promoted his GAIN AI plan, now folded into the Senate’s defense bill, to make chipmakers offer advanced AI hardware to U.S. buyers first and to require licenses for exports to countries of concern.
- Fresh criminal cases, including charges that a Supermicro co-founder tried to move $2.5 billion in Nvidia chips to China, highlighted gaps in how the U.S. polices high-end chip exports.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson urged companies to keep data centers and top-tier chips in the U.S., as forum speakers called for close government–industry teamwork that protects security without choking innovation.