Sen. Hawley flatly rejects antitrust waiver sought by Anthropic and other AI companies
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-18
Senator Josh Hawley has forcefully rejected the antitrust waiver that Anthropic and other AI companies have been lobbying for: "There is no world in which I will consent to giving the most powerful companies in the history of the world antitrust exemptions... so that they can collude together?" The stance signals a major roadblock for frontier labs seeking liability protection under a federal AI framework, heating up the regulatory standoff.
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