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US Government
Sets US AI policy through export controls, executive orders and agency action rather than standing statute.
The US federal government shapes AI through three main levers: export controls, executive action and the machinery of the agencies. From October 2022 the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security restricted exports of the most advanced chips and chipmaking tools to China, a regime successive administrations have tightened and adjusted since. On domestic policy the direction has swung sharply: Biden's 2023 executive order set safety-testing and reporting expectations for powerful models, which the Trump administration rescinded on its first day in January 2025, replacing it with an approach centred on removing regulatory barriers and an AI Action Plan. Much federal AI policy has run through executive orders rather than statute, leaving it, as the record shows, about as durable as the administration that issued it.
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- Government & policy 76
- Compute & infrastructure 18
- Security & misuse 13
- Courts & copyright 10
- Safety & alignment 7
- Models & capabilities 5
- Money & business 5
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Eleven nations issue joint warning on North Korean deepfake job-interview fraud
The advisory said a live deepfake model can map a stolen face onto an operative's video feed through a virtual camera, defeating standard video-interview screening.
Security & misuse
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol
The flagship Sol model came with OpenAI's most extensive safety stack to date, but was released only to a small group of government-vetted partners under White House pressure.
Models & capabilities
White House to individually approve customer access to GPT-5.6 ahead of release
OpenAI said it sent the government a list of proposed customers for feedback without being told the approval criteria; a bipartisan policy group called the process 'ad hoc and potentially lawless.'
Government & policy · Models & capabilities
Trump administration asks OpenAI to limit release of its next model
Officials compared the new model family's capability to Anthropic's Mythos 5; OpenAI limited access to roughly 20 vetted partners before a wider release about twelve days later.
Security & misuse · Government & policy
UK NCSC and Five Eyes warn of accelerating AI-driven cyber risk
The joint advisory, co-signed by the NSA and CISA among six agencies, urged organisations to assume breaches will happen and to deploy AI defensively rather than wait for formal regulation.
Security & misuse
Commerce Department orders Anthropic to take Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline worldwide
Amazon researchers had reported a technique bypassing Fable 5's safeguards; Anthropic disputed the order's rationale and said less capable models showed the same weakness.
Security & misuse · Government & policy
White House issues NSPM-11 on AI in national security
The memorandum orders agencies to cancel contracts with AI vendors who limit how the government may use their models, and rescinds the Biden-era NSM-25.
Government & policy
Trump signs executive order on frontier AI security and pre-release government access
Executive Order 14409 explicitly rules out mandatory pre-clearance for new models, framing the access as voluntary and contrasting it with the prior administration's approach.
Government & policy · Security & misuse
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT safety practices
The 83-page complaint names Altman personally, brings ten counts including product liability and public nuisance, and follows a criminal probe into a fatal FSU campus shooting.
Courts & copyright · Safety & alignment
US Commerce Department closes Nvidia Blackwell export-control loophole
Chinese firms had bought Blackwell and Rubin chips through subsidiaries in Malaysia, Singapore and the UAE; the new guidance does not require existing installed servers to be shut down.
Compute & infrastructure · Government & policy
Colorado governor signs law delaying and narrowing state AI Act
SB 189 replaced the 2024 law's 'high-risk AI system' framework with narrower disclosure rules for automated decision-making, pushing binding obligations back to January 2027.
Government & policy
White House blocks Anthropic from expanding Mythos access, weighs pre-release vetting regime
Officials cited leak risk and worry the NSA's compute share would shrink, while separately telling Anthropic, Google and OpenAI they were weighing government review of models before release.
Government & policy
White House memo addresses distillation of US AI models
Citing a February disclosure that Chinese labs had run large-scale extraction campaigns against Claude, the memo directed agencies to share threat intelligence with AI companies rather than impose new restrictions.
Government & policy
Judge grants Anthropic preliminary injunction against Department of War designation
Judge Rita Lin found Anthropic likely to prevail on First Amendment, due-process and Administrative Procedure Act claims, calling the designation 'classic illegal First Amendment retaliation'.
Courts & copyright · Government & policy
White House releases National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence
The document is a set of legislative recommendations to Congress, not a binding order, and follows Trump's December 2025 executive order on the same subject.
Government & policy
Department of War formally designates Anthropic a supply-chain risk
Anthropic said the designation, previously used only against firms tied to foreign adversaries, applied only to direct Department of War contract work, and it would keep serving national-security customers at nominal cost.
Government & policy · Labs & people · Security & misuse
OpenAI signs agreement with the Department of War for classified-network use
Announced hours after Anthropic was barred from federal contracts, the deal let Pentagon use OpenAI's models 'for all lawful purposes'; Altman later called the timing 'rushed'.
Government & policy · Security & misuse
Anthropic disputes Hegseth's public claim it was designated a supply chain risk
Anthropic said it had not received formal notice of any designation despite Hegseth's post on X, and tied the dispute to its refusal to drop safeguards on surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Government & policy · Courts & copyright
Trump orders federal government to cut ties with Anthropic
Trump ordered federal agencies to cease use of Anthropic's technology, with Defense Secretary Hegseth designating Anthropic a 'supply-chain risk' after a dispute over autonomous-weapons guarantees in Pentagon contract terms.
Labs & people · Government & policy
Dario Amodei publicly refuses Pentagon demand for 'unfettered' Claude access
Amodei refused Department of War demands to drop safeguards against mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, despite threats of a 'supply chain risk' designation.
Government & policy · Labs & people
White House announces AI Agent Standards Initiative
Public input windows run to 9 March and 2 April, ahead of sector listening sessions starting in April, aimed at heading off a fragmented patchwork of agent protocols.
Government & policy
US Commerce Department codifies H200-to-China export rule
Exports were capped at half of each company's cumulative US chip sales and subject to a 25% fee, a level analysts estimated could allow roughly 850,000 H200-equivalent chips into China.
Compute & infrastructure · Government & policy
California and Texas frontier/AI-governance laws take effect
Texas's law bans specific AI uses such as generating CSAM or discriminating against protected classes, rather than regulating frontier models by compute threshold like California's.
Government & policy
New York enacts RAISE Act for frontier AI models
The law sets a 72-hour incident-reporting window, tighter than California's 15 days, and does not take effect until 1 January 2027 pending agreed amendments to align its thresholds with California's law.
Government & policy · Safety & alignment
OpenAI and US Department of Energy sign AI collaboration MOU
OpenAI was one of 24 organisations, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia and Anthropic, to sign non-binding agreements under the DOE's Genesis Mission the same day.
Compute & infrastructure · Government & policy
Trump signs executive order to preempt state AI laws
The order, EO 14365, exempts state child-safety, compute-infrastructure and procurement laws from preemption, and conditions broadband funding on states not enforcing conflicting AI rules.
Government & policy
Trump administration approves Nvidia H200 chip exports to China
The 25% government cut was up from a 15% arrangement applied earlier to H20 sales; Nvidia's newer Blackwell chips remained excluded, and Democratic lawmakers demanded disclosure of the licensing review.
Compute & infrastructure · Government & policy
Trump launches Genesis Mission to accelerate AI-driven science
The order gives the Department of Energy 270 days to demonstrate an initial platform, after first identifying 20 science challenges and federal compute and data assets.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
Trump administration issues $100,000 H-1B visa fee, unsettling AI talent market
The $100,000 fee applied only to new petitions filed after the following Sunday; some companies told H-1B staff travelling abroad to return to the US before the deadline.
Government & policy
FTC opens inquiry into AI chatbot companies over child safety
Using compulsory 6(b) orders rather than requests, the FTC gave Alphabet, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, Snap and Character Technologies 45 days to hand over safety-testing and monetisation records.
Security & misuse · Government & policy · Culture & impact
Appeals court blocks Trump's firing of Copyright Office director
The panel found the register of copyrights sits in the legislative branch, so the president could not remove her unilaterally; the firing came a day after her AI-training report.
Courts & copyright · Government & policy
Anthropic and US National Nuclear Security Administration build a nuclear-content classifier
The classifier, co-developed with the Department of Energy's NNSA and already running on live Claude traffic, reached 96% accuracy in preliminary testing.
Safety & alignment · Security & misuse
US federal agencies get access to Claude across all three branches of government
The General Services Administration deal offers Claude for a nominal $1 per agency for a year, covering the executive, legislative and judicial branches; OpenAI's earlier deal reached only the executive.
Government & policy · Money & business
Nvidia and AMD agree to pay US government 15% of China chip revenue for export licences
The arrangement covered Nvidia's H20 and AMD's MI308 chips and followed a White House meeting between Jensen Huang and Donald Trump days earlier.
Compute & infrastructure · Government & policy
OpenAI gives ChatGPT Enterprise to the entire US federal workforce for $1
The GSA OneGov deal also included a 60-day period of unlimited use of ChatGPT's advanced tools, and was framed as delivering on the White House's AI Action Plan.
Government & policy · Money & business
Anthropic offers Claude to US federal government for $1 per agency
The GSA schedule listing followed Anthropic's June 2025 Claude Gov models and a July Department of Defense contract, extending reach across the executive branch.
Money & business · Government & policy
The White House publishes an AI Action Plan
Trump signed three accompanying executive orders the same day, including one directing agencies to favour AI models the administration deems free of 'ideological bias.'
Government & policy
Trump signs executive order barring 'woke AI' from federal procurement
Order requires federal agencies to procure only large language models certified 'ideologically neutral' and free of DEI-related content requirements.
Government & policy
Trump signs executive order promoting export of the US AI technology stack
Order directs Commerce and State to create a programme for exporting full-stack US AI hardware and software packages to allied countries.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
Nvidia says US will let it resume H20 chip sales to China
The reversal followed a meeting between Jensen Huang and President Trump; the H20, designed to comply with earlier controls, had itself been restricted in April 2025.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
Anthropic secures up to $200 million Pentagon contract
The Pentagon's CDAO awarded matching $200 million contracts the same day to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI, days after Grok's antisemitic-post controversy.
Money & business · Government & policy
Senate strips 10-year state AI law moratorium from reconciliation bill 99-1
Only Senator Thom Tillis voted to keep the provision; opposition came from all 50 state legislatures and roughly 40 state attorneys general.
Government & policy
Texas enacts Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA)
The law bars specific harmful uses of AI, such as manipulating behaviour or discriminating unlawfully, rather than regulating systems by risk category as the EU and Colorado do.
Government & policy
Anthropic launches Claude Gov models for national security customers
Anthropic said the models refuse less often when handling classified material and better interpret intelligence and cybersecurity documents, but underwent the same safety testing as consumer Claude.
Government & policy · Models & capabilities
US AI Safety Institute renamed Center for AI Standards and Innovation
Commerce Secretary Lutnick described the renamed body's mission as countering 'burdensome and unnecessary regulation' abroad rather than broad safety evaluation.
Government & policy · Safety & alignment
Trump signs TAKE IT DOWN Act, first federal deepfake law
Sponsored by Senators Cruz and Klobuchar and championed publicly by Melania Trump, the law also gives platforms only 48 hours to remove reported images once it takes full effect.
Government & policy · Courts & copyright · Security & misuse
Commerce Department begins rescinding the AI Diffusion Rule
The Biden-era rule sorted the world into three tiers of chip-access restrictions; Commerce scrapped it days before it took effect and issued three guidance documents on Huawei's Ascend chips instead.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
Gulf AI deals accompany a presidential visit
NVIDIA agreed to supply Saudi Arabia's Humain with 18,000 Blackwell chips as Washington rescinded the Biden-era rule tiering AI-chip export licences by country.
Compute & infrastructure · Government & policy
Trump administration fires US Copyright Office director days after AI training report
Perlmutter says she was fired by email a day after her office's report questioned whether training on pirated or scraped works is always fair use; she sues, calling the removal unlawful.
Courts & copyright · Government & policy
US Senate Commerce Committee holds hearing on AI competitiveness with Sam Altman
Witnesses from OpenAI, Microsoft, AMD and CoreWeave asked instead for faster permitting, energy access and calibrated export controls to help the US 'run faster' than China.
Government & policy
Anthropic backs US 'AI Diffusion' chip export framework
Anthropic urged Washington to keep, and tighten, the outgoing Biden administration's chip-export tiers, arguing chip restrictions were forcing DeepSeek to use far more power for comparable results.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
Trump signs order on AI education for K-12 youth
Executive Order 14277 sets deadlines from 90 days to a year for a White House AI-education task force, a student AI challenge and teacher-training priorities.
Government & policy
US requires licences for Nvidia H20 exports to China, forcing $4.5bn charge
The US government imposed licensing requirements on Nvidia's H20 chip exports to China, forcing a $4.5bn inventory charge and an estimated $15bn in lost sales.
Compute & infrastructure · Government & policy
OpenAI submits proposals for the US AI Action Plan
OpenAI cast fair use for AI training as a national-security matter against China, months before the government's own Action Plan echoed its deregulatory framing.
Government & policy · Courts & copyright
Anthropic submits AI Action Plan recommendations to White House OSTP
The submission urged tighter H20-chip export controls, classified channels between labs and intelligence agencies, and 50 gigawatts of new US power capacity by 2027.
Government & policy
The Paris summit pivots from safety to opportunity
Renamed the AI Action Summit, it closed with a declaration on inclusive AI that the US and UK both declined to sign.
Government & policy
White House science office opens comment period for AI Action Plan
The Office of Science and Technology Policy set a 15 March deadline for input on chips, data centres, open models, IP and export controls, drawing submissions from every major lab.
Government & policy
OpenAI signs agreement with US National Laboratories
The agreement covers all 17 Department of Energy national laboratories, giving up to 15,000 scientists potential access to OpenAI's o1 reasoning models under security-clearance review.
Models & capabilities · Government & policy
Copyright Office says AI outputs need human creative control to be copyrightable
Part 2 of the Copyright Office's three-part AI report found prompting alone does not establish authorship, but human selection or modification of AI output can be protected.
Courts & copyright
OpenAI launches ChatGPT gov
The self-hosted offering ran on Azure's commercial or government cloud and targeted FedRAMP High, IL5, CJIS and ITAR compliance, ahead of formal accreditation.
Models & capabilities
Trump issues executive order on AI deregulation
New executive order directs agencies to develop an AI action plan within 180 days centred on innovation and removing 'ideological bias' from federal AI policy.
Government & policy
The Stargate Project announces $500 billion for AI infrastructure
OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle pledged $500 billion over four years for US data centres, announced from the White House.
Compute & infrastructure · Money & business
Trump revokes Biden's AI executive order
EO 14110 was rescinded on day one, replaced days later by an order framed around removing barriers to American AI leadership.
Government & policy
Biden signs executive order on AI infrastructure on federal land
The order let developers lease Defense and Energy Department land for AI data centres with clean-power commitments; Trump revoked it six months later with his own permitting order.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
Biden administration issues AI Diffusion Rule in final days of term
Interim final rule creates worldwide tiered licensing for AI chips and closed model weights above 10^26 FLOP, sorting countries into three access tiers.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
OpenAI publishes 'economic blueprint' for AI policy
OpenAI proposed federal 'AI Economic Zones' with streamlined permitting for power and data centres, plus a National AI Infrastructure Highway linking them.
Government & policy
BIS issues third major round of chip export controls, adds 140 entities
New rules restricted high-bandwidth memory chips and 24 categories of chipmaking equipment, building on rules issued in October 2022, October 2023 and April 2024.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
FTC launches 'Operation AI Comply' enforcement sweep against deceptive AI claims
Five cases targeted firms including DoNotPay and Rytr; the Rytr complaint passed 3-2 on a party-line vote, with Republican commissioners dissenting over the legal theory.
Courts & copyright · Government & policy
Illinois amends Human Rights Act to restrict discriminatory AI in employment
The law, House Bill 3773, also bars employers from using zip codes as a proxy for protected characteristics; it takes effect 1 January 2026.
Government & policy
Colorado enacts first US broad AI discrimination law
SB 24-205 requires risk-management programmes and impact assessments for 'high-risk' AI in hiring, lending and similar decisions; Polis signed it 'with reservations.'
Government & policy
UK and US AI Safety Institutes sign testing partnership
UK science secretary Michelle Donelan and US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo signed the pact, which followed through on commitments made at the November 2023 Bletchley summit.
Government & policy · Safety & alignment
OMB issues governance memo for federal agency use of AI
Agencies had until September 2024 to publish compliance plans and until December to make their AI use-case inventories public, under an order later revoked.
Government & policy
UN General Assembly adopts first resolution on AI
The non-binding, US-led text won more than 120 co-sponsors and passed by consensus without a vote, urging states not to deploy AI that violates human rights.
Government & policy
Gladstone AI's government-commissioned report warns of catastrophic AI risk
The four-person consultancy, paid $250,000 by the State Department, urged Congress to ban training runs above a compute threshold and restrict publishing open-weight models.
Safety & alignment · Government & policy
FCC declares AI-generated robocall voices illegal under TCPA
The unanimous ruling followed a faked Biden robocall urging New Hampshire primary voters to skip voting, giving state attorneys general new grounds to prosecute voice-cloning scams.
Government & policy · Security & misuse
AI-generated fake Biden robocall urges New Hampshire voters to skip primary
Thousands of New Hampshire Democrats received a cloned Biden voice telling them a primary vote would forfeit their choice in November; the operative behind it was fined and criminally charged.
Culture & impact · Security & misuse · Government & policy
FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition after misidentifying customers
FTC settles with Rite Aid, banning its use of facial recognition for five years after finding the AI system generated false shoplifting matches without safeguards.
Courts & copyright
The Bletchley Declaration at the first AI Safety Summit
Twenty-eight countries including the US and China signed the first international statement on frontier AI risk.
Government & policy
Biden signs the executive order on safe and trustworthy AI
The most far-reaching US action on AI to date: compute thresholds, mandatory safety reporting, and a new safety institute.
Government & policy · Safety & alignment
Washington tightens the chip controls again
New performance-density thresholds targeted Nvidia's China-specific A800 and H800 parts, and licensing requirements extended to 21 additional countries.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
Schumer convenes tech chief executives behind closed doors
About two-thirds of the Senate attended; press and public were excluded, and no senator was permitted to ask a question.
Government & policy
Seven labs sign voluntary safety commitments at the White House
Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI pledged security testing and watermarking, with no enforcement mechanism and no penalty for non-compliance.
Government & policy
Sam Altman asks the Senate to regulate his industry
He proposed a federal agency able to license and de-license frontier models above a capability threshold, then declined to lead it himself.
Government & policy
FTC warns AI voice cloning is supercharging the 'grandparent scam'
The agency said criminals needed only a short online audio clip to clone a relative's voice and stage a fake emergency call demanding a wire transfer, cash or gift cards.
Security & misuse
The US restricts advanced chip exports to China
The rules covered the tools to make advanced chips, not only the chips, and barred US citizens from supporting Chinese chipmaking.
Government & policy · Compute & infrastructure
The White House publishes a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
Non-binding OSTP guidance setting five principles; created no legal obligations, unlike the EU's AI Act moving through Parliament the same year.
Government & policy