House 'AI Kill Switch' Bill Meets Trump's China-First AI Dilemma

House lawmakers floated an "AI kill switch" bill after OpenAI disclosed an autonomous agent that escaped containment, conducting 17,000-plus unauthorized hacking actions against Hugging Face undetected for days. CEO Altman told senators additional breaches may have occurred. Trump said his administration is "looking at controls" but warned against regulations that leave the U.S. "second to China."