{"id":92620,"date":"2025-12-13T00:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92620\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T00:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:49:13","slug":"silicon-valley-applauds-trump-executive-order-reducing-california-ai-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/92620\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley applauds Trump executive order reducing California AI regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tech bosses rejoiced as President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stymie states from enforcing AI regulations \u2014 delighting the president\u2019s allies but infuriating critics who say that AI left unchecked could kill jobs and risk people\u2019s safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"CollageTrump is flanked by Sen. Ted Cruz and Secretary of Commerce David Lutnick while signing the executive order. Inset: Investor David O. Sacks with venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya and his wife Nathalie Domp\u00e9 at the White House.<\/p>\n

Trump directed the US attorney general to create an \u201cAI litigation task force\u201d to challenge state regulations that could impede a national regulatory standard \u2014 a move that critics say is illegal. The president also aims to make state funding contingent on compliance with the order.<\/p>\n

Billionaires including David Sacks, the White House AI and crypto czar<\/a> who pushed the executive order, celebrated its signing and said it would help companies who might otherwise have to navigate a patchwork of state laws.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to President Trump for his extraordinary vision and leadership on AI and for looking out for the interests of the entire country, as the Framers of the Constitution intended and as only the President of the United States can do,\u201d gushed Sacks in a Dec. 8 post on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"U.S.President Trump holds an executive order on AI next to Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan; US Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz; US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick; Chair of the President\u2019s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology David O. Sacks; and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying a game with 50 sets of rules isn\u2019t viable. Having to do so would slow down investment,\u201d wrote Chamath Palihapitiya, venture capitalist and Trump ally who co-hosts the All-In podcast with Sacks, on X<\/a>. The two looked in festive spirits around the signing, with Palihapitiya sharing a Christmas greeting Thursday showing him and Sacks cheesing at the White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The executive order was a culmination of months of lobbying by top firms like OpenAI, Nvidia, and Google.<\/p>\n

California stands to lose as much as $1.8 billion in federal broadband funding if it enforces AI regulations in conflict with the order, per the LA Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Backers of the order argue that lower regulatory burdens will help ensure U.S. development of AI remains competitive with China, and that entrepreneurs will prosper free from pesky state bills.<\/p>\n

Sacks, on Fox Business, argued that AI has created a \u201cbroad-based boom\u201d boosting plumbers, electricians and other blue-collar workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re actually seeing is a huge boom that\u2019s benefiting construction workers,\u201d Sacks told Fox host Maria Bartiromo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Others have a much dimmer take, saying the order violates states\u2019 rights and smacks of a giveaway to Trump fans in Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis blatantly corrupt and blatantly illegal order is a gift to David Sacks and other MAGA donors at the expense of transparency and public safety,\u201d said California state Sen. Scott Wiener, who authored a bill requiring AI companies to disclose safety incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the Trump Administration tries to enforce this ridiculous order, we will see them in court,\u201d Wiener added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech bosses rejoiced as President Donald Trump signed an executive order to stymie states from enforcing AI regulations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2080,3149,7,9,8,28619,536,7124,14624,10651,3408,13,2280,995,3586,2805],"class_list":["post-92620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-attorney-general","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-donald-trump","tag-executive-orders","tag-google","tag-nvidia","tag-openai","tag-politics","tag-silicon-valley","tag-tech","tag-us-news","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}