Three House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have asked senior White House science advisers and the FBI to brief Congress on allegations that foreign adversaries, including China-linked actors, are trying to slow the buildout of U.S. artificial intelligence data centers. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman John Joyce (R-Pa.), and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-Ohio) sent the June 4 letter to FBI Director Kash Patel as well as David Sacks and Michael Kratsios, co-chairmen of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The chairmen requested a briefing no later than June 18 on what actions the administration is taking to investigate what they called foreign influence campaigns and “billionaire-backed activism” aimed at slowing U.S. AI development and the infrastructure needed to support it....