The Trump administration has been focusing on state-level AI regulation, with the president declaring in a social media post this week that the trade wants “one Federal Commonplace as an alternative of a patchwork of fifty State Regulatory Regimes.”

This comes after a 10-year ban on state AI regulation was initially included in Trump’s “Massive Stunning Invoice” earlier than finally getting removed by the Senate in a 99-1 vote. 

The concept then apparently took on a brand new type, with the administration reportedly drafting an executive order that may set up an AI Litigation Job Pressure with a mission to problem state AI legal guidelines by means of lawsuits. States with contested AI legal guidelines would additionally reportedly be threatened with the lack of federal broadband funding.

Now, Reuters stories that the executive order has been put on hold. If signed, the order would most likely face important opposition, together with from Republicans who previously criticized the proposed moratorium on state regulation.

AI regulation has additionally been a controversial matter in Silicon Valley, with some trade figures — particularly these within the Trump administration — attacking companies like Anthropic for supporting AI security payments together with California’s SB 53.