Congress has still not passed a national law on AI

Fact-check index: 35/100 — The headline claim about congressional inaction is directly supported, but the source material provided is only a headline with no article body, so the specific claims about the EU AI Act, Chinese regulations, and the US being the only one of the 'three biggest AI powers' without a federal law cannot be verified against it.

• Congress has gone years without passing a binding federal law on AI, with little sign of change — Matches the CNN headline verbatim: 'Congress has failed to regulate AI for years – and there's little sign that's changing.'
• The EU's AI Act is already in force — Source material supplied is only the CNN headline with no article text; no mention of the EU AI Act appears in it, though this is a well-known external fact.
• Chinese regulators have their own rules governing AI systems — Not present in the supplied headline-only source material; cannot confirm this was actually reported by the cited CNN article.
• The US is the only one of the world's three biggest AI powers without an enforceable federal AI law — This synthesized claim is not found in the source material provided (headline only) and is not independently sourced.
• Hypothesis that congressional gridlock is ceding global AI standard-setting to Brussels and Beijing — Explicitly labeled as a hypothesis with stated counter-considerations, and openly flags that the source doesn't explain the cause of the gridlock or state/White House actions — appropriately hedged rather than asserted as fact.
• What to watch: renewed congressional push and firms designing around EU/Chinese rules — Forward-looking speculation presented as things to watch, not a factual claim from the source, and appropriately framed as such.