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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin testifies before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

EPA webpage maps out path for data-center developers around air rules

The agency’s Clean Air Act Resource for Data Centers page includes a section on how AI data-center builders may be able to “legally avoid requirements” in the…
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 18: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is hosting the crown prince for meetings aimed at strengthening economic and defense ties, including the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump signs executive order curbing state regulation of AI

The order does not issue a federal framework immediately, but includes numerous “tools” to push back on some state laws in the meantime.
President Donald Trump speaks during the “Winning the AI Race” summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

OMB lays out requirements for agencies to prevent ‘woke AI’

The seven-page directive comes nearly five months after the White House called for the prevention of “biased” AI models.
Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Del., attends a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen building on June 18, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Amid AI boom, Senate Democrats eye agency-led push to protect workers

A bill from Sens. Blunt Rochester, Hirono and Schiff charges the departments of Labor, Commerce and Education with studying AI’s effect on the workforce and awarding grants…
President Donald Trump is pictured during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 17, 2025. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump order calls for integrated AI platform led by Energy secretary, OSTP

The Genesis Mission will create a unified AI resource that pulls together federal datasets from DOE supercomputers to “solve the most challenging problems of this century.”
WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 18: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a bilateral meeting with Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office of the White House on November 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is hosting the crown prince for meetings aimed at strengthening economic and defense ties, including the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump appears to ready executive order on state AI law preemption

A draft executive order viewed by FedScoop would establish a litigation task force to challenge state AI actions, restrict funding, and launch preemption efforts.
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President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during the “Winning the AI Race” summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on July 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Trump signed executive orders related to his Artificial Intelligence Action Plan during the event. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

‘What’s our AI strategy?’ is the wrong question for agency leaders

Federal officials overseeing implementation of the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan need to start with people, not platforms.
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, delivers opening remarks during a hearing of the Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Sept. 10, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Cruz to introduce proposal for regulatory AI sandbox program within OSTP

Regulatory sandboxes were among the recommendations from Trump’s AI Action Plan, and OSTP’s Michael Kratsios voiced support for the concept at a Wednesday hearing.
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