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Tech Bills of the Week: Regulating chatbot-child communication; AI in the VA; and more
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Fusion42 · 25 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Congress is advancing four major AI regulatory bills: child safety guardrails for chatbots, VA AI audits, Warner's omnibus AI framework, and the FRONTIER Act establishing federal oversight of frontier AI models with a single national standard preempting state rules.
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If you're building consumer AI or foundation models, you now have a single federal rulebook coming—but it comes with mandatory safety evaluations and a new compliance officer watching your deployment. The window to shape what 'responsible development' means closes when these bills pass; the time to engage is now.
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