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The USCC's annual report flags China's push to commercialize data as a factor in the AI race, urging a US national data strategy and pointing to factory, fleet and hospital data that can't be scraped.
Reporters and state investigators found role-play bots inventing Pennsylvania medical license numbers, pushing the state toward tougher disclosure and youth-safety rules.
The bipartisan draft would require large frontier AI developers to publish risk frameworks, report severe incidents quickly and face audits, while pausing some state model-development laws for three years.
The executive order keeps model review voluntary but asks companies to give government cyber teams early access before wider release.
Federal enforcement agencies in the US are taking action against AI companies using existing laws, outpacing stalled federal AI legislation. The FTC targets deceptive AI claims, the SEC pursues AI washing, and the DOJ uses the False Claims Act for government contracts, while states pass their own laws.
As of March 2026, 45 US state legislatures have introduced 1,561 AI-related bills this year, covering algorithmic bias, deepfakes, and healthcare claims, while the federal government has yet to pass comprehensive AI legislation.
California Governor Newsom signed an executive order using state procurement power to set AI safety standards, directly countering the Trump administration's federal AI policy after Anthropic was labeled a supply chain risk for refusing to remove safety guardrails on military contracts.