Last week the White House released an AI Action Plan and executive orders that threaten to withhold federal funds from states that regulate AI, order federal agencies to end investigations into AI companies and delete any existing rules or agreements that could slow AI development, and fast-track or in some cases completely nix the environmental permitting process for AI infrastructure projects. But there was one string attached to the big tech giveaway: If AI companies want to do busin
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AI Militarization: Top AI militarization takeaways * Silicon Valley has fully embraced the Pentagon, taking contracts they used to be hesitant to touch that will see the Defense Department develop AI for the battlefield. * The biggest Silicon Valley winner during the early days of the second Trump administration has been Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who used to be Vice President J.D. Vance’s employer and who also spent $15 million to help Vance win his Senate seat in 2022.
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FEDERAL Federal - H.R.4873 Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government See bill Bill Summary: Codifies Executive Order 14319 (Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government), which directs executive departments and federal agencies to only procure large language models (LLMs) that adhere to "Unbiased AI Principles," defined as being truth-seeking and ideologically neutral Last Action: 8/5/25 Introduced (House Oversight and Government Reform Committee) Primary Sponsor:
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Earlier this month, Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s xAI, called itself “MechaHitler,” recommended a second holocaust, sexually harassed former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, and graphically described how it would rape liberal political commentator Will Stancil. On Monday, the Defense Department announced it awarded xAI a $200 million contract to “develop agentic AI workflows” and help “solve DoD use cases.” Contracts of the same size were also handed out to Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI as part of t
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FEDERAL Federal - Executive Order 14318 Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure See bill Executive Order Summary: Establishes a national policy to accelerate the construction of data centers to support the U.S. AI industry; sets a two-year goal for completing environmental reviews and authorizations for major data center projects, and directs federal agencies to identify actions to expedite the overall permitting process Last Action: 7/23/25 Ord
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