The US Senate has voted nearly unanimously to remove a 10-year moratorium on the enforcement of state artificial intelligence regulations from Republicans’ sweeping domestic policy bill. The provision in the Senate bill would have effectively prevented states from enforcing many proposed and existing AI-related laws — including regulations around sexually explicit and political deepfakes — for the next decade.

The United States Senate shot down a controversial provision regarding artificial intelligence regulation in President Donald Trump’s massive tax bill. The provision in what Trump has repeatedly called his “Big,