AI Policy Newsletter - September 26, 2025

• On September 22, NVIDIA and OpenAI announced a partnership in which NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI and supply advanced chips for its data centers. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang described it as “the biggest AI infrastructure project in history.” The deal marks a major collaboration between two leading players in the global AI race and underscores the growing ties among tech giants developing advanced AI systems. Some antitrust lawyers and professors have raised concerns that such business tie-ups could incentivize exclusionary or other anticompetitive conduct.

  
  

• On September 17, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) released his “AI for America” plan. At the center of the plan is a new “AI Horizon Fund,” a federal fund fueled by contributions from leading AI companies that would provide resources to invest in workers, infrastructure, and responsible AI deployment.

  
  

• Congress continued to examine how AI chatbots are impacting teens during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism hearing titled “Examining the Harm of AI Chatbots.” During the hearing, lawmakers and witnesses detailed cases of AI chatbots exposing minors to sexual exploitation, self-harm content, and psychological manipulation. Two days before the hearing, OpenAI announced new safety measures for teen ChatGPT users, including age prediction technology, notification requirements in cases of imminent self-harm, and stricter content rules for minors. Still, Senators underscored the need for further legislation – including the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the AI Lead Act – to protect child safety. Additional solutions discussed included age restrictions on AI companions, pre-market safety testing, mechanisms to remind users that chatbots are neither licensed professionals nor human, and new liability frameworks to hold companies accountable.

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