U.S. Congress Oversight

House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer this week unveiled two federal bills to stop suspected fraud in welfare and Medicare payments, and said the committee will mark them up next Wednesday on Capitol Hill. Rep. James Comer introduced the measures.

The story begins with the rapid rise of advanced artificial intelligence systems and growing worry that those systems and their training data could be copied or stolen. Tech companies built ever-larger models and collected massive datasets, while foreign competitors, including some linked to China, pushed to acquire the same capabilities. That combination made insiders with access to model code, training data, or system architecture a prime national security concern.