A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, thwarting attempts to insert the measure into President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

The U.S. Senate dealt a crushing blow to Big Tech’s dreams of escaping state regulation for artificial intelligence, voting 99-1 on Tuesday to strip out a contentious provision that would have forbidden states from regulating AI for a decade.

A stark disagreement over regulating AI in Republicans’ tax cut and spending bill is the latest tension among conservatives about whether to let states continue to put guardrails on emerging technolog