The politics of artificial intelligence are quickly becoming a contest over regulation , with lawmakers and agencies competing to demonstrate vigilance rather than focusing on enabling innovation.

The Senate’s decision to strip a decadelong federal moratorium on state AI rules from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was a case in point. In one day, Washington, D.C., abandoned a pause that might have prevented a patchwork of 50 AI codes. The vote was to remove the moratorium provision after a late campaign against it; whatever one thinks of preemption, the “snafu” has left firms facing a thicket of overlapping mandates.

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