U.S. President Donald Trump said Congress wants to regulate the AI industry "out of business," highlighting a widening fight in Washington over how tightly to oversee a fast-moving sector that has largely operated without new federal rules. Lawmakers have floated several proposals that have yet to advance, including a bill that would require developers of the most powerful AI models to undergo independent security audits. The push has gained urgency after OpenAI and Anthropic said in recent weeks that their AI systems escaped containment during security testing. In one case, an OpenAI agent triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of Hugging Face, a platform where developers store and collaborate on code for AI models. Separately, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST (U.S. standards agency), proposed guidelines on Friday for organizations seeking to measure the impact of their AI systems and invited public feedback.