\n It\u2019s the Trump administration\u2019s latest push to expand AI infrastructure and investments in the United States and serves as another indication that staying ahead of China in AI is a top priority for the administration.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s a global competition now to lead in artificial intelligence,\u201d said White House AI Czar David Sacks on a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning. \u201cAnd we want the United States to win that race. AI is a revolutionary technology that\u2019s going to have profound ramifications for both the economy and for national security, so it is just very important that America continue to be the dominant power in AI.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The announcement came before Trump is expected to outline his AI plans during an event in Washington Wednesday evening called Winning the AI Race. The event will be hosted by the \u201cAll-in Podcast,\u201d a show about business and politics co-hosted by Sacks among other industry figures, and the Hill & Valley Forum, a group that hosts a tech and policy conference founded by Jacob Helberg, previously a commissioner for the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, and investors Delian Asparouhov and Christian Garrett.\n <\/p>\n
\n The plan involves removing what the Trump administration described as \u201cbureaucratic red tape\u201d to AI development and is based on recommendations from the private sector, as well as academia and civil society groups, White House officials said. It also calls for streamlining permitting for data centers, semiconductor manufacturing facilities and energy infrastructure. And the government will partner with US tech companies to make \u201cfull stack AI export packages\u201d \u2014 AI models, hardware and software \u2014 available to American ally countries. That\u2019s in an effort to make US technology the global standard, something Silicon Valley leaders have called for to ensure the United States remains an AI leader.\n <\/p>\n
\n Michael Krastios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, said on the conference call that all policies outlined in the action plan can be executed in the next six months to a year.\n <\/p>\n
\n Lawmakers and tech leaders have been divided on how AI should be regulated, highlighting the struggle to balance safety with speed. Soon after taking office, Trump repealed a sweeping executive order <\/a>passed by former President Joe Biden that sought to implement some safeguards around AI development and use.\n <\/p>\n \n More recently, the US Senate voted on July 1<\/a> to remove a provision from Republicans\u2019 sweeping domestic policy legislation, for example, that would have prevented states from enforcing AI-related laws for 10 years. Tech leaders have argued that state-level rules or a patchwork of regulation could slow innovation and deployment. But those who opposed the provision<\/a> worried that it would hamper efforts to keep AI safe and hold tech companies accountable. However, the AI action plan recommends that the federal government \u201cconsider a state\u2019s AI regulatory climate\u201d when considering how to distribute federal funding for AI-related programs.\n <\/p>\n \n Some have criticized the Trump Administration\u2019s agenda for prioritizing the interests of the tech industry over AI safety, in the face of concerns about AI taking jobs<\/a> or harming children<\/a>, among others. A coalition of privacy advocates, labor unions and other organizations are calling for a People\u2019s Action Plan<\/a> to counter the Trump administration\u2019s proposals. Its signatories include the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Writers Guild of America East and research institute the AI Now Institute.\n <\/p>\n \n A senior White House official said that more than 10,000 responses from \u201cdiverse\u201d individuals and sectors were submitted in the White House\u2019s request for information to inform the plan.\n <\/p>\n \n The plan recommends updating federal procurement guidelines so the government contracts only with large language model developers that \u201censure their systems are objective and free from top-down ideological bias.\u201d But experts have said enforcing such a rule could be challenging since it\u2019s unclear what the definition of \u201cbias\u201d is. That could also slow down innovation, because tech companies looking to secure government contracts will likely have new guidelines to adhere to.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThis type of thing, which creates all kinds of concerns and liability and complexity for the people developing these models \u2014 all of a sudden they have to slow down,\u201d said Oren Etzioni, former CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute.\n <\/p>\n \n Wednesday\u2019s plan follows a series of AI and tech-related investments and announcements from private businesses made throughout Trump\u2019s second term thus far. On July 15, the president announced an investment of more than $90 billion<\/a> from companies across tech, energy and finance to turn Pennsylvania into a hub for artificial intelligence.\n <\/p>\n \n He kicked off his second term with a $500 billion AI infrastructure project called Stargate,<\/a> which involves a collaboration between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison.\n <\/p>\n \n He also said he would roll back Biden-era AI export restrictions<\/a> on AI chips, and Nvidia was recently allowed to resume selling its H20 AI chips to China.<\/a>\n <\/p>\n \n More broadly, Trump has been pressuring tech giants to expand their US operations in a bid to bring back US manufacturing, create jobs and reduce reliance on China for tech production, although experts have been skeptical that such efforts will be successful. He\u2019s touted investments from companies like Apple and TSMC as political victories, although it\u2019s possible that at least some of those plans were in place regardless of Trump\u2019s push.\n <\/p>\n \n Collaboration between the tech industry and the White House isn\u2019t new; it\u2019s happened under the Biden administration and long before then. But tech CEOs have been noticeably present through Trump\u2019s first six months in office. Tech giants and the White House have come together over a shared goal: Staying ahead of China\u2019s AI ambitions. Chinese startup DeepSeek rattled the markets and Silicon Valley earlier this year with its powerful yet supposedly cheap-to-train R1 model, sparking concern that China may be further ahead than expected.\n <\/p>\n \n The challenge of maintaining an edge in AI while prioritizing safety has come up on Capitol Hill before; tech leaders from Microsoft, OpenAI, CoreWeave and AMD addressed the issue in a Senate committee hearing in May.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe number one factor that will define whether the United States or China wins this race is whose technology is most broadly adopted in the rest of the world,\u201d Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith said during that hearing.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled its AI action plan, a package of initiatives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-18669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gettyimages-2203839324.jpg\")
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