Liability Bill Advances

The most likely policy path is a bipartisan Senate bill that creates liability for negligent deployment of autonomous agents while offering safe harbors for firms that meet audit and logging standards. Lawmakers have incentives to show action after the hearing, but a sweeping strict-liability regime would face heavy lobbying from Microsoft, OpenAI, cloud vendors, and open-source advocates.

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