Josh Hawley: “I cannot emphasize how absurd this is, and what a mockery this makes of Federal law, what a mockery it makes of…”

At the end of the day, they’re a product, and if you make that product in a reckless kind of way, and that product causes … significant harm and damage — they crash a hospital ER, they shut down a bank so that folks can’t get their money —…

I opened an investigation into OpenAI on Sept. 10 after its agents breached New York-based open-weight AI platform Hugging Face in July.

We should suspend the federal gas tax. I introduced legislation to do that back in April, so we’re way overdue.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declined to attend and testify.