Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai urged a unified national AI policy, warning that more than 1,000 state-level bills risk creating a regulatory patchwork as the U.S. competes with China. He highlighted Google’s safety tools and its Suncatcher plan for solar-powered space data centers, while investors and tech leaders stressed the role of cheap energy in determining AI leadership. Trump and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang both said fragmented rules could undermine U.S. competitiveness.