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OSTP DIRECTOR DEFINES KEY
ADMINISTRATION POLICIES ON AI
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White House 2026 Budget Continues to
Support Key Tech Research
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- OSTP Director Defines Trump Two Part AI Strategy
- Trump 2026 "Skinny" Budget Continues to Fund AI & Quantum Research
- Administration to Rescind Biden AI Chip Export Rules
- All-In Podcast with Interior Secretary Burgam on Energy Emergency
- OpenAI Drops Change In Structure - Musk Lawsuit Moves Forward
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NO FAKES Act Introduced Related to AI Generated Images and Voice Recordings
- House Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Global AI Race
- Senate and House Legislation to Crackdown on AI Chip Smuggling
- Member Focus: COGNIVIX - AI for Manufacturing
- Watch the Video on How to Join Hundreds of AI Companies in NAIA's Member Community
- Join A Community Group, Tell Us About Your Company and Connect
- Attend AI+ Expo in Washington, June 2-4: NAIA Booth #633
- Become a NAIA Member Today!
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OSTP Director: "what we have to do as a country is pursue a two part strategy, one of promote and one of protect"
On Monday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, Michael Kratsios, outlined the Trump Administration's two part artificial intelligence strategy at the Miliken Institute Global Conference.
“The U.S. government spends about $150 [billion] to $170 billion a year on R&D,” Kratsios relayed. “We need to direct that and prioritize those dollars into the areas that are most important for [the] national security mission.” The OSTP Director specified that the Administration defined the critical areas of investment as artificial intelligence, quantum information sciences, nuclear energy and biotechnology.
The Director's additional key points about the "promote and protect" strategy:
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Deregulation to remove "barriers to innovation",
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Promote widespread domestic and international adoption of U.S. tech solutions, aiming for the world to run on an "American" AI stack,
- Pushing to accelerate the adoption of these technologies within the federal government,
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Considering the creation of an "ecosystem of trust" to facilitate the adoption of new U.S. technologies,
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Safeguarding U.S. intellectual property through "simple and strict export controls" to prevent adversarial nations like China and Russia from leveraging U.S. breakthroughs, while still making them available to allies,
- And continuing to protect critical infrastructure from threats.
Director Kratsios also stated that the Administration also spared federal investments in the emerging technology research from the sweeping cuts proposed in the Trump Administration's 2026 Budget.
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Trump Administration Maintains AI and Quantum Computing Research Funding in 2026 Budget
Last Friday the the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) sent President Trump’s topline discretionary Budget request for fiscal year 2026 to the U.S. Congress. The "skinny budget" demonstrated the shift in the policy agendas between a Biden Administration and a Trump Administration. The budget eliminates funding for diversity programs and climate related research while focusing on artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, fusion, critical minerals — and quantum information science.
An overview of the President's proposed preliminary budget is HERE
The release of the preliminary budget represents the first step in a lengthier process. Next, the Trump Administration will provide its complete budget request to Congress. Then both the House and Senate will develop spending bills, which may or may not resemble the President’s proposal.
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Trump Administration to Change AI Chip Export Rules from Biden Era Plans
On January 15th of this year, right before the inauguration, the Biden Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a "Framework for Artificial Intelligence Diffusion" which was implemented to limit exports of AI chip and related technology to China. The regulations were to be effective on May 15th. We reported about the new Biden AI chip export regulations in NAIA's first newsletter (v1.1) back in January HERE.
Yesterday (May 7), the Trump Administration announced they plan to rescind this Biden Order and institute modifications in a new order. We envision that the order change is a direct outcome of the ongoing tariff negotiations and the concerns about limited access to US AI Chip production. Read more HERE.
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ALL-IN Podcast Interviews Interior Secretary Doug Burgam on Administration's Energy Emergency Concerns / Plans
The Team at NAIA are regular listeners of the All-In podcast. A great weekly podcast especially with David Sacks, the White House AI Tzar (an original host) that drops in and provides insight on the Administration's thinking about AI. This week, Co-Host David Friedberg interviewed the Secretary of the Interior (and former ND Governor / Great Plains Software founder), Doug Burgam about "Ameirca's Energy Emergency".
We all know that without increasing the supply of electricity, this will impact the United States efforts in artificial intelligence. The US is in a race with China to build a stronger energy infrastructure without the climate damage that China is producing. Well worth the hour to watch or listen HERE.
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OpenAI Drops Going Private - Musk Lawsuit Moves Forward
On Monday, OpenAI announced it dropped the plans to move from a non-profit to a for profit entity in a post called "Evolving OpenAI's Structure". As Reuter's reports (HERE) "The announcement follows a storm of criticism and legal challenges, including a high-profile lawsuit filed by rival and co-founder Elon Musk who has accused OpenAI of straying from its founding mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity."
Yesterday in Oakland, the Federal Judge overseeing the Musk case against OpenAI dropped many of the claims, however, the core of the case continues to move forward. The Musk core case claims that the defendants had breached a “charitable trust” that was in the public interest. (Assets that are owned by a nonprofit corporation may be subject to special restrictions because of their charitable purpose.). Read about the Judge's ruling and next stage of the lawsuit HERE.
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Bi-partisan "Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act" Introduced
U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), along with U.S. Representatives Maria Salazar (R-Fla.) and Madeleine Dean (D-Penn.), introduced the bipartisan "Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act" to protect the voice and visual likenesses of individuals and creators from the proliferation of digital replicas created without their consent.
The NO FAKES Act (S. 1367 and H.R. 2794) would address the use of non-consensual digital replications in audiovisual works or sound recordings by:
- Holding individuals or companies liable if they distribute an unauthorized digital replica of an individual’s voice or visual likeness;
- Holding platforms liable for hosting an unauthorized digital replica if the platform has knowledge of the fact that the replica was not authorized by the individual depicted;
- Excluding certain digital replicas from coverage based on recognized First Amendment protections; and
- Preempting future state laws regulating digital replicas.
Both bills were referred to the respective Judiciary Committees for further action.
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House Judiciary Sub-Committee Hearing on "Protecting Our Edge: Trade Secrets and the Global AI Arms Race"
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence held a hearing on Wednesday titled "Protecting Our Edge: Trade Secrets and the Global AI Arms Race,"
The hearing examined the role of trade secret protection in U.S. artificial intelligence development and countering economic espionage by foreign competitors and nation-states. The hearing additionally explored important considerations with respect to protecting U.S. intellectual property as legislation and governmental policy are developed regarding AI competition, transparency, and other issues.
Watch the hearing HERE and see the list of witnesses with links to their testimony HERE.
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Senate and House Bills Proposed to Crackdown on Chip Smuggling
As the Trump Administration re-writes the Biden Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) chip export rules (see above), two pieces of legislation are heading through Congress to make it harder for China to purchase American AI chips. Senate bill S. 1473 called the "Stop Stealing our Chips Act" was introduced on a bipartisan basis by Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Mike Rounds (R-SD). The bill would amend the Export Control Reform Act to create a whistleblower incentive program at the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). The program is designed to increase reporting of illegal exports.
In the House, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL-11), who is a particle physicist and previously designed computer chips, plans to introduce legislation to track individual AI chips after the sale. Stating the technology is now available to perform the task. NAIA will report when this one is submitted.
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MEMBER FOCUS: COGNIVIX - AI for Manufacturing is a New Bronze Level Member
With offices in Italy and San Francisco, we welcome COIGNIVIX and its' CEO, Daniele Bernardi to NAIA. As described on their LinkedIn page "we are pushing the limits of what’s possible in robotics and computer vision. Born from a relentless drive to solve the unsolvable, we are pioneering new ways to automate tasks in industrial production that were once deemed impossible." A fascinating startup and we welcome them to NAIA!
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Thank you for all your support and we look forward to continuing to build an organization dedicated to keeping America #1 in artificial intelligence across the world.
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JOIN US AT AI+ EXPO IN JUNE - BOOTH #633
Over 15,000 artificial intelligence professionals will attend the AI+ Expo on June 2 -4 at the Washington, DC Convention Center to listen and learn (and join the Hackathon?).
"The powerful purpose behind this one of a kind event is to serve as a forum for industry, government, and academic research entities to exhibit some of the latest technological breakthroughs – in AI, biotech, energy, networks, compute, microelectronics, manufacturing, augmented reality, and beyond – and discuss their implications for U.S. and allied competitiveness."
Registration is free and learn more HERE.
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Check you filter to make sure the NAIA Digest is not going to spam and below are links to the last six NAIA Digests if you missed them. Note: we will soon have all the back editions of the newsletters posted on the new NAIA website which is under development:
NAIA Digest v1.11: Gov. Youngkin Vetoes AI Overreach Bill, New GSA AI Tool, Trump CIOs and EOs and more
NAIA Digest v1.12: CREATE AI Act, More China Controls, Quantinuum Joins NAIA, Prompts for Politics and more
NAIA Digest v1.13: New OMB Policies on Fed AI Acquisition, House Hearings on AI Innovation, TAKE IT DOWN Act passes and more
NAIA Digest v1.14: Big Changes in $1T Gov Spending, AI Tool for Hill Staffers, Tariffs Impact on AI and more
NAIA Digest v1.15: AI Concerns Americans; AI Education for K-12; GPT for Leg Staffers and more
NAIA Digest v1.16: Busy AI Policy Week, New AI R&D RFI, Take It Down Act Passes and more
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