Republican senator urges Trump to back US open-weight AI models amid industry debate

Senator Banks Presses Trump to Champion American Open-Weight AI Against Chinese Advances

Republican Sen. Jim Banks sees danger in the spread of Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence models. He wants President Donald Trump to step in with concrete incentives for U.S. companies to build their own. The move highlights a split inside the technology sector and raises fresh questions about how Washington will manage AI competition with Beijing. Banks, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, laid out his position in a letter…

The 'dangerous' AI models are the ones saving us

When the next cyberattack hits a Fortune 500 company, or ransomware locks the files of a regional hospital system, which artificial intelligence tools will information technology experts use to ward off attackers? Against these threats, coders are increasingly ditching frontier AI large language models in favor of open models without guardrails. This matters because powerful forces in Washington, from the China hawks to the frontier AI companies…

Republican senator urges Trump to back US open-weight AI models amid industry debate

Sen. Banks calls for U.S. open-source AI leadership to counter China

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) sent a letter to Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) Chairman Christopher Phelan encouraging the Trump administration to examine policies that ensure the United States wins both the race to develop the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence and the race to make American AI models the global standard. Banks warned that China is attempting to repeat its Huawei playbook by flooding the global mark…