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WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R- Texas ) proposed on Thursday an alternative punishment for planned legislation that would set a 10-year ban on state regulation of Artificial Intelligence model learning.

Under Cruz’s budget reconciliation proposal , an attempt to regulate AI would be prohibited from collecting federal funding provided by the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.

Cruz Limits State AI Regulation

The Proposal:

The U.S. House of Representatives passed their version of House Resolution 1, the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act ," on May 22. In part, the budget bill would ban state regulation on AI for 10 years.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Cruz authored a budget reconciliatio

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