How the Trump administration shifted from a "light-touch" approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US
THE SO WHAT
AI policy in the US is now oscillating between deregulatory rhetoric and hard export and access controls—treat it like trade and national security policy, not like tech regulation. If your roadmap depends on frontier models or cross-border AI talent and data flows, you need a live risk register tied to US executive actions, not just to agency rulemaking.
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