I'm not always a great sleeper.

And on Monday night, I woke up and went to get myself a glass of water.

Technically, it was early Tuesday morning, and I peeked at my phone to read the news.

I know you shouldn't do that, sleep hygiene, etc. But I did.

The Senate was in the middle of a voterrama on President Trump's domestic policy bill.

I wanted to see what was going on.

And when I looked, I saw that the big piece of AI policy,

an amendment to block states from making AI laws was gone.

They took it out of the bill.

I was kind of stunned.

I was surprised.

That's Will Oremus from the Washington Post.

It makes me feel better that he also didn't see this coming.

It could have gone any of a number of ways,

but the way it did in fact go was one of the weirdest ones, I think.

This was a very contentious issue. It died in this piece of legislation.

But something tells me this is not the last we are going to hear about national AI policy in Congress.

AI policy is going to be a big issue for years to come.

And the idea of preempting state's ability to regulate AI is one that's going to continue to come up in these

discussions because the tech industry and a lot of leaders in Congress have a really strong

interest in having just one set of AI rules apply to everybody. But it's also going to continue

to be controversial because, as we all know, Congress struggles to do the thing that Congress is tasked with doing, which is past laws.

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