The Senate Commerce Committee wants to cut regulatory barriers to U.S. artificial intelligence after China's DeepSeek debuted its high-quality, affordable AI model last year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top executives at American AI giants OpenAI, Microsoft and AMD are set to appear at a U.S. Senate hearing on Thursday and outline ways they believe Washington can stay ahead of Beijing in the artificial intelligence race.

Developing AI and creating guardrails for the industry has been a priority for Congress over the last two years after OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene and led an uptick of AI usage by the