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The Trump administration's drive to create a single federal AI framework is colliding with a bipartisan wall of state resistance, setting up a constitutional battle that could define AI governance for a generation.

Two bipartisan Senate bills would create a VA Office of Novel Therapeutics and fund psychedelic research centers, while states enact their own laws and Phase 3 trials advance.

Seven U.S. states now enforce consumer electronics right-to-repair laws, the EPA has clarified that farmers can fix their own diesel equipment, and defense contractors blocked military repair provisions from the 2026 defense bill.

Senators Cantwell and Moran introduce federal legislation to fund AI scholarships, create community college Centers of Excellence, and train one million workers, while a Stanford review finds only 20 rigorous studies on AI in K-12 and states introduce competing bills to regulate classroom use.