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Trump Signs Scaled-Back Executive Order on Preventing AI Cyber Threats
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday asking some artificial intelligence companies to give the federal government 30 days to review their frontier models before release. Trump had been scheduled to sign a broader version of the order on May 21, but he delayed the signing, saying he did not like “certain aspects” of… -
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Hegseth: US and China Agreed to Keep Talking About AI Guardrails
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says the United States and China agreed in Beijing to keep discussing if the two countries should team to set guardrails on AI. ”You wanna be able to set guardrails,” Hegseth told the Daily Signal Saturday evening. “Given the innovation capabilities of the United States of America, we also wanna… -
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Republicans Warned Everyone About TikTok for Years—Now They’re Going Viral on It
GOP members in Congress are joining TikTok after years of speaking out against the app and are going viral. Following in the footsteps of Democrat lawmakers who have been on the app for years, Republican lawmakers are gaining millions of views and reaching the younger generation of voters. Last year, TikTok, the social media platform… -
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Vance Echoes Pope Leo’s Message on AI in AF Commencement Address
Vice President JD Vance delivered a speech about morality in advanced war technology to the 931 candidates at the U.S. Air Force Academy commencement May 28, but he cloaked it with humor, including a quip about the weather, a reference to being a former Marine surrounded by members of the Air Force, and a chest… -
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Is Instagram Designed to Be Addictive? Supreme Court Rejects Meta’s Appeal
The Supreme Court rejected Meta Platforms’ attempt to block a lawsuit from Vermont’s attorney general accusing the company of designing the social media app Instagram to be addictive for young users. Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark, a Democrat, sued Meta in 2023, alleging violations of the state’s consumer protection laws. Meta sought to have the… -
opinion
Pope Leo’s Message in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ Is One We All Need to Hear
Pope Leo XIV‘s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” is perfectly timed. In the document, signed on the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s “Rerum Novarum,” the pope takes up the question that now looms over every sector of modern life: What happens to human dignity when artificial intelligence reshapes how we work, think, and relate to… -
opinion
News Aggregators’ Left-Wing Bias Reinforces Political Ignorance
The other day, a young lady got on the elevator and promptly whipped out her smartphone and began scrolling. “Excuse me,” I said, “can I ask you where you get your news?” She said, “You mean like news about what’s going on in the world?” “Yes.” “Oh, TikTok.” This reminded me of a dinner conversation… -
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Why Trump Delayed an Executive Order to Protect America From Cyber Threats
President Donald Trump on Thursday delayed signing an executive order regulating artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, citing the AI race with China. “I think it gets in the way of … we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump told… -
opinion
Making Government Lean Again: The DOGE Effect
As of Jan. 1, 2026, the Department of Government Efficiency reports $215 billion in savings, or roughly $1,335 per taxpayer. Established in the early months of the second Trump administration and initially led by Elon Musk, DOGE set out to eliminate waste, fraud, and inefficiency in federal spending. Early results suggest those efforts are not… -
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Agency Approves ExportAI Initiative in Trump Tech Dominance Push
In a step forward for President Donald Trump’s push to give an edge to the American artificial intelligence industry over foreign rivals, a major federal agency approved the new “ExportAI Initiative” on Thursday. The Export-Import Bank—a federal credit agency that seeks to support American exporters via financing tools—has launched the initiative, which was approved by… -
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SCOOP: Trump AI Executive Order Will Likely Punt on Security Concerns
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on artificial intelligence safety later this week, but sources familiar with the draft say the directive won’t answer key questions about how to contain potential national security risks posed by new models. Trump is slated to sign an executive order in… -
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How President Trump Can Ensure AI Serves Families and Communities
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos—a frontier artificial intelligence model believed to have uncovered thousands of security flaws in critical digital infrastructure—has prompted the White House to take a harder line on AI guardrails. Several reports indicate that the administration is considering safety testing for federal contractors to address the threats AI systems pose to national security and… -
opinion
America Won’t Lose the AI Race for Lack of Ideas—but We Might Lose It for Lack of Compute
The front line in the fight over AI runs through Utah. In Box Elder County, a remote valley near the Great Salt Lake, residents are fighting a proposed AI data center, which would be one of the largest ever. Some 4,000 people filed formal objections over its water use. Developers pulled their application but say… -
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Why Are We Arming Our Adversary in the AI Race?
Imagine if, during the space race with the Soviet Union, General Electric and Boeing, storied American giants in the space race, had been selling key components designed for Apollo 11 to the Russians. There would have been a national outcry. Our companies built and fueled NASA’s race to the moon. While national pride was a… -
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Big Tech to Be Grilled by Congress: ‘Big Tobacco Moment?’
This summer, Big Tech titans will be put in the hot seat on Capitol Hill. On Friday, Axios reported that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has invited the CEOs of Meta, Alphabet, TikTok, and Snap for a June oversight hearing. The CEOs in question are Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, TikTok’s Shou… -
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US, China Are Discussing AI Guardrails to Safeguard Most Powerful Models, Bessent Says
WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters)—U.S. and Chinese delegations are discussing artificial intelligence guardrails at their Beijing summit and will set up a protocol for best practices to keep non-state bad actors from exploiting the most powerful AI models. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC in a pre-recorded interview on Thursday that it was “of utmost importance”… -
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Voters Overwhelmingly Support White House Draft Executive Order to Protect Americans From Cyber Threats
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The majority of Americans across both political parties would support President Donald Trump taking executive action to vet new artificial intelligence models for safety, a new poll from the Institute for Family Studies and YouGov shows. The new poll of 1,000 Americans, obtained by The Daily Signal, shows that 82% of… -
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Who Is Going to China With President Trump?
President Donald Trump is bringing a slew of top business leaders with him to Beijing for his state visit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “I am very much looking forward to my trip to China, an amazing Country, with a Leader, President Xi, respected by all,” Trump said Monday on Truth Social. Joining the president on… -
opinion
The Hidden Health Hazard Behind America’s Fertility Crisis
America’s fertility rate has hit a new record low of 1.57 in 2025, well below replacement rate. It’s been on this steep downward trajectory since 2007. The MAHA movement has recently brought much-needed attention to America’s fertility crisis, with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy calling it a “national security threat.” MAHA… -
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Self-Censorship and the Silenced Generation
Are America’s college students doing to themselves what the Chinese Communist state does to its citizens? An Ivy League professor—an old-fashioned liberal who actually cares about free speech—recently warned me about what’s happening in classrooms like his. He encourages class discussion of the great books he teaches in class—but students are afraid to speak, not…