Trending on X: White House Postpones AI Executive Order After Tech Lobbying Blitz
What Happened
President Trump delayed signing an AI safety executive order that would have established a voluntary 90-day pre-launch review framework for frontier models. Tech industry leaders including Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg lobbied directly in the hours before signing, arguing the federal review window would slow US labs against Chinese competitors. Internal disagreement over enforceability also contributed.
My Take
"Voluntary" was always the giveaway — labs were going to sign it, score the PR win, and submit cherry-picked checkpoints. Killing it means the next administration inherits an empty regulatory shelf with public anxiety already priced in. Expect blue-state AGs to fill the vacuum within 90 days; California's SB-style framework becomes the de facto US standard. Companies banking on federal preemption are about to discover they planned for the wrong jurisdiction.
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