WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty issued the following press release:
Today, Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), along with Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC), Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance, and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), introduced the Blocking Large-Scale Adversarial Distillation Efforts (BLADE) Act of 2026, a bipartisan bill to deter malign foreign actors from stealing the proprietary capabilities of America's frontier AI companies.
Recent news reports have detailed the large-scale use of "model extraction attacks" by Chinese entities to distill the unique competitive advantages of America's top AI models. Such foreign model...