Ashley Gold

Europe's landmark AI law has moved from an idea to enforcement. A major enforcement deadline 

The Trump administration has given OpenAI the green light for a broad launch of its 

The Federal Trade Commission is now under stronger presidential control—with no more opportunity for partisan dissent—following the Supreme Court's decision that President Trump can fire its members. Any realistic chance the agency in charge of consumer protection, kids' online safety, tech competition, and fighting deceptive and unfair practices will have any Democrats during this administration is effectively gone. The FTC will keep doing its job as outlined by the law.

President Trump is redefining what it means to be a U.S. ally in the AI era.

The Trump administration entered office promising to get government out of the 

A flagship U.S. program designed to boost AI exports could be undermined by the very administration that created it.

The first major deadlines in President Trump's new AI 

The White House is negotiating a federal preemption of some state AI laws in exchange for its support of key tech policy priorities from the Hill. The talks are aiming to pair one of the tech industry's top priorities — overriding state AI laws — with legislation aimed at protecting kids online and combating deepfakes. Sen.

Open-source AI firm Reflection AI is partnering with the Department of Energy to help power the Genesis Mission, a federal scientific research initiative. The partnership is a big advancement for a company that's trying to get the U.S. to embrace open-source models. Reflection AI will serve as the AI model provider at the U.S. National Labs. The company is aiming to be the premier U.S. AI lab for the most advanced open-weight models, where the trained parameters are available to the public.

Anthropic is both a risk and a necessity to AI progress, at least in the White House's telling. That tension is shaping AI policy in real time, as the White House