The failed congressional moratorium would have stipulated that no state could regulate artificial intelligence systems for a 10-year period, on pain of being barred from a $500 million AI development fund and potentially losing rural broadband funding. And Trump’s new plan has a similar, albeit vaguer, provision buried within. It states that “AI is far too important to smother in bureaucracy at this early stage” and the government “should not allow AI-related Federal funding to be…