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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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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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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… -
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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… -
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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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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…