Amrith Ramkumar

Tech executives and Trump administration officials urged policymakers from other leading economies to minimize artificial-intelligence regulations, arguing that strict rules could strangle an industry capable of supercharging global growth and curing diseases.

Apparently, the Trump administration’s new guidelines for powerful artificial-intelligence tools exempt open models made by U.S. companies, a gap that marks the White House’s latest bid to ensure AI tools are safe without slowing down innovation. Under a framework that administration officials discussed with executives from leading AI companies, only makers of closed, proprietary U.S.

Trump administration officials have asked the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a government artificial-intelligence testing unit, to stop issuing public reports, the latest signal that the White House is tightening control over AI models as national-security concerns increase. Administration officials including National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross have told the Center for AI Standards and Innovation to halt publicati

The Defense Department has completed agreements with seven technology companies, including many of the industry’s biggest, to use their artificial-intelligence capabilities in classified settings, boosting the Pentagon’s efforts to gain access to cutting-edge AI tools.

The federal government will stop working with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, President Trump said, a dramatic escalation of the government’s clash with the company over its AI models. “I am directing every federal agency in the United States government to immediately cease all use of Anthropic’s technology.

Officials at multiple federal agencies have raised concerns about the safety and reliability of Elon Musk’s xAI artificial-intelligence tools in recent months, highlighting continuing disagreements within the U.S.

An artificial-intelligence (AI) startup and Google have agreed to settle several lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with the startup’s chatbot, potentially resolving some of the most high-profile cases involving AI and mental health.

The sudden rise and fall of a ban on state artificial-intelligence laws exposed the deep divisions between the pro-tech and Make America Great Again (MAGA) wings of the Republican Party, a rift that has complicated the GOP’s ability to enact sweeping tech policy. President Trump’s aides and advisers were split on the proposed ban, according to people familiar with the matter.

Technology companies are set to end the year with their greatest share of the stock market ever, topping a dot-com era peak in the latest illustration of their growing influence on global consumers. Companies that do everything from manufacturing phones to operating social-media platforms now account for nearly 40% of the S&P 500, on pace to eclipse a record of 37% from 1999, according to a Dow Jones Market Data analysis of annual market-value data going back 30 years. Apple accounts for more than 7% of the index on its own.