President Trump just signed an executive order re-establishing the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), revoking the 2021 Biden-era framework. The revamped 24-member council will be co-chaired by the newly appointed Special Advisor for AI & Crypto alongside the top science advisor. Why it matters: The move officially elevates AI and crypto to the core of White House national security and tech policy.
The Biden-Harris Administration just released an Interim Final Rule on AI diffusion, reshaping how computing power moves across the globe. It lifts export restrictions for 18 core allies and creates verified end-user statuses, while strictly clamping down on closed-weight model transfers to adversaries. Basically, Washington wants the world's AI running exclusively on American rails.
President Biden just signed a landmark executive order imposing strict oversight on frontier AI systems. Developers training high-risk foundation models must now alert the federal government and share their red-team safety results under the Defense Production Act, while officials develop mandatory watermarking standards to catch AI-generated fraud.
OpenAI and several leading AI labs just agreed to a set of voluntary safety commitments coordinated by the White House. The pact requires companies to run independent red-team evaluations, watermark synthetic audio and video, and lock down unreleased model weights. It marks an industry effort to establish shared guardrails before formal regulation arrives.
