Lines of Thought / Organisation
The White House: every development we track
8 developments and 9 rules, in date order. Built automatically from every development involving this organisation.
- Rule · In forceUSEO 14179
Also on Project Meridian and the race to govern military AI, Washington vs the states on AI rules
- US executive order makes AI literacy a K-12 and workforce priority
It turned AI literacy into a federal funding priority, giving AI companies a formal channel to supply schools with tools and curricula.
- White House publishes America's AI Action Plan and three executive orders
It is the policy root of the 2025-26 US moves on federal AI procurement, AI exports and pressure on state AI laws.
Also on Washington vs the states on AI rules, Procurement as AI policy
- Trump executive order launches Genesis Mission for AI-driven science at DOE
It makes AI for science an explicit national mission and puts the national laboratories at the centre of US federal AI research spending.
- Trump executive order targets state AI laws with litigation and funding pressure
It does not void any state law by itself, but it opened a federal legal and financial campaign against state AI statutes such as Colorado's and California's.
- Rule · In forceUSState AI law preemption EO
Also on Transparency, not licensing, Can an algorithm deny your care?
- Rule · In forceUSOMB M-26-04 ('Woke AI' procurement rules)
- Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refuses to drop two limits
It is the first use of a supply-chain-risk designation against a US frontier lab over its usage policy, signalling that vendor-imposed limits on military use can cost access to the whole defence market.
Also on The Pentagon, the labs and the limits on use, Project Meridian and the race to govern military AI, Who supplies the AI-first military?, Procurement as AI policy
- White House sends Congress AI framework calling for preemption of state laws
It is the administration's template for any federal preemption bill and signals which state rules, chiefly model-development laws, are most exposed.
- Rule · ProposedUSWhite House AI legislative framework
- Presidential memo orders rapid rewrite of Pentagon autonomous-weapons rules
3000.09 is the main US rule requiring senior review and appropriate human judgement for autonomous weapons, so loosening it changes what can be fielded and the US position in UN talks.
- White House commits $5bn+ to Genesis Mission and selects 278 AI-for-science projects
It turns the Genesis order into funded work and a shared platform that companies, labs and universities will build on and compete for.