Congress should establish uniform rules for military AI use instead of allowing individual technology companies and Pentagon officials to negotiate safeguards privately

Platform regulation, artificial intelligence, surveillance, data privacy and the antitrust scrutiny of large firms, as they are argued in American politics. A domain where federal law lags well behind deployment, leaving states and the courts to set the boundaries instead.

Bicameral federal legislature of the United States, made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which writes law, controls federal spending and oversees the executive branch. Its two chambers represent states and districts on different terms and hold different constitutional powers.

Defence of a state against external and internal threats, spanning intelligence services, military operations, counterterrorism and the classification of information. Covers the tension between secrecy and oversight, and the agencies whose work is largely conducted beyond public view.

A San Francisco judge struck down the supply-chain risk label in late August, finding the Department violated the First Amendment to make a public example of a critic. The designation had barred defense contractors from using Claude, after the company refused to drop guardrails.