The White House has instructed federal agencies to consult businesses on and remove regulations that “unnecessarily hinder AI development or deployment.” The AI Action Plan also promises that Washington will buy more AI tools, but only from developers that avoid “ideological bias.” (The Logic)

Talking point: The Trump administration has signalled its intent to give U.S. tech firms free rein to develop AI and help them dominate the emerging industry around the world. Wednesday’s plan seeks to put those goals into practice. “Whoever has the largest AI ecosystem will set global AI standards and reap broad economic and military benefits,” it states. While the document does not name target nations, the U.S. will export “its full AI technology stack” to countries in “America’s AI alliance,” promoting packages of hardware and models put together by private-sector consortia. Under Trump, AI firms have switched to campaigning against regulation, citing the competitive threat from China.