TMTPOST -- U.S. Senator Josh Hawley on January 29 introduced the Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act (S. 321), marking one of the first legislative efforts of the 119th Congress to address the intensifying U.S.-China competition in artificial intelligence. The bill’s introduction comes just days after Chinese AI firm DeepSeek launched its R1 AI model, an advanced system that has been widely seen as a potential inflection point in the AI rivalry between the two nations. If enacted, S. 321 would impose sweeping restrictions on U.S. imports and exports of AI and generative AI technologies, prohibit AI-related R&D collaboration with China, and ban U.S. investments in AI technologies developed or produced in China. The legislation, which has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, had no cosponsors and no House companion bill at the time of introduction.