Senator Ted Cruz blocked a move by Democrats to pass the Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026 on Tuesday, stopping the legislation from moving forward by unanimous consent, The Hill reports. This bill was designed to create a permanent AI safety board inside the Commerce Department, which would have been tasked with setting enforceable standards for frontier models.
The measure would have required developers to grant the board access to their models at least 45 days before any public release. Companies failing to follow these new standards would have faced potential fines.
