Washington U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell led a successful push Tuesday to eliminate a proposal inside Republicans’ massive budget bill to dissuade states from regulating artificial intelligence.

The episode revealed the enormous influence of a segment of the Republican Party that has come to distrust Big Tech.

InnoMat CEO Charlie Sun, LoftxAI CEO Avinash Belur; Orbital Robotics CEO Aaron Borger; and Alson AI CEO Nafisa Muzaffar. From ...