Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) signaled the White House has not made enough progress on an AI moratorium for it to be included in the defense policy bill the Senate will consider later this month.

“That’s controversial, as you know,” Thune said of the moratorium, which would temporarily prevent states from passing new laws on artificial intelligence .

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“We’ll see,” he told the Washington Examiner . “Both sides are kind of dug in.”

The White House has been attempting to insert the AI moratorium’s language into the National Defense Autho

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