ICYMI: Blunt Rochester, Curtis Call for AI Hearings, Regulation

U.S. Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and John Curtis (R-Utah), members of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, sent a letter to Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), leadership of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, urging them to convene a hearing with executives from leading AI companies on the capabilities and safety of developing AI systems. The Senators also released a joint statement calling for swift public congressional hearings on potential AI regulatory solutions. The letter can be found HERE. On August 6, 2026, and August 7, 2026, Senator Blunt Rochester sent letters to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, regarding recent cybersecurity incidents in which the companies’ models gained unauthorized access to the internet and launched direct attacks on people and real-world targets. The letters sought information about the circumstances surrounding the incidents, the design and security of the testing environments in which they occurred, the capabilities demonstrated by the models, and the safeguards the companies have implemented or plan to implement to prevent similar incidents.