Nebraska’s Pillen Among 17 Republican Governors To Oppose Congressional AI Moratorium

The AI Moratorium “Just Ran Out of Time” — They’ll be back

“We didn’t lose, we just ran out of time”Chip Pickering, CEO of tech industry association Incompas When the so-called “AI moratorium” safe harbor nearly slipped into law earlier this year, it did so not on the merits of sound policy or constitutional fidelity, but through a legislative Trojan horse hooked onto the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). What should have been a red flag to lawmakers and civil liberties advocates alike instead passed …

David Sacks Is Learning That the States Still Matter–But Big Tech Will Be Back in their Quest for the Unregulation

For a moment, it looked like Big Tech global powerbrokers had pulled it off. Buried deep in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (a Republican infrastructure and tax package) was a sleeper provision — the so-called AI moratorium — that would have blocked states from enforcing or passing their own AI laws for up to a decade. It was an audacious and highly unconstitutional move: centralize control over one of the most consequential technologies in histo…

Nebraska’s Pillen Among 17 Republican Governors To Oppose Congressional AI Moratorium

Gov. Jim Pillen (right) presents a signed version of Legislative Bill 383 to State Sen. Brian Hardin of Gering, a bill that included a provision from Hardin at Pillen’s request to outlaw child sexual abuse material generated with artifical intelligence, May 30, 2025.(Zach Wendling / Nebraska Examiner) Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers. (Patrick Semansky / AP Photo) By Zach WendlingNebraska ExaminerLINCOLN — As the federal “one big beautiful…