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Morally Binding

On YouTube as “How the AI Giants Use China to Get Whatever They Want”

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Corrections and updates

None so far.

The table

  1. CBS News

    Trump and the heads of the largest AI companies sign voluntary controls he calls “almost like a constitution”

  2. Forbes Australia

    The White House accord between AI executives, with its full text

  3. Al Jazeera

    How does Trump’s White House AI accord work? Voluntary, no penalties

The rival

  1. DeepSeek

    DeepSeek-R1 release

  2. CNBC

    Nvidia sheds almost $600 billion in market cap, its biggest drop ever

  3. Government of China

    Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services, security assessment and filing

  4. CISA

    Joint NSA, FBI and CISA advisory AA26-251A on industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models by China-based AI companies

  5. NIST

    CAISI evaluation of DeepSeek models finds shortcomings and risks

Power

  1. CBS News

    Trump announces Stargate, a private-sector AI infrastructure investment

  2. The White House

    Executive Order 14318, Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure

  3. The White House

    America’s AI Action Plan

  4. Utility Dive

    Data centres account for $6.3 billion, or 38%, of PJM’s latest capacity auction

  5. CourtListener

    Justice Department filing in NAACP v. xAI

    The NAACP “threatens American national, economic, and energy security”

  6. Engadget

    OpenAI report on Chinese influence campaigns against US data centres

  7. Roll Call Factbase

    Trump at the Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit: China added “11 times” as much power capacity

  8. EIA

    48.6 GW of US capacity installed in 2024, the most in a single year since 2002

  9. Utility Dive

    DOE closes a $1 billion loan to Constellation to restart Crane, the former Three Mile Island Unit 1, for Microsoft

  10. Action News 5

    Shelby County air board denies the appeal over xAI’s turbines

The partner

  1. SEC

    Intel Form 8-K exhibit, the US government’s 9.9% stake funded by grants already awarded

  2. The White House

    Section 232 proclamation, a 25% duty on certain advanced computing chips

  3. CNBC

    OpenAI proposes the US government own a 5% stake

  4. TIME

    Donald Trump interview transcript, on stakes in the AI labs: “I might”

  5. Fortune

    The US government invested $27 billion in corporate stakes. Good luck finding them

  6. SEC

    Nvidia Form 10-K: US officials expect “15% or more” of licensed China sales

Foreign deals

  1. Euronews

    DeepSeek’s AI gains traction in developing nations, Microsoft report says

  2. The Block

    UAE sheikh secretly acquired 49% of Trump’s World Liberty Financial days before the inauguration, per the WSJ

  3. CNN

    The Trump family’s crypto firm and the UAE stake, with World Liberty Financial’s denial

  4. Global Trade Alert

    Commerce authorises advanced chip exports to the UAE and Saudi Arabia

  5. The Block

    MGX’s $2 billion investment in Binance settled in World Liberty Financial’s USD1, confirmed by Zach Witkoff

The price of a seat

  1. OpenAI

    Response to the OSTP request for information on an AI Action Plan

  2. Tech Policy Press

    US Senate drops the proposed moratorium on state AI laws in a 99-1 vote

  3. CNBC

    The AI super PAC’s first target: Alex Bores

  4. The New Republic

    AI super PAC spending against Alex Bores in New York

  5. Broadband Breakfast

    Amazon and Meta each give $1 million to the Trump inauguration fund

  6. CNBC

    Google donates $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund

The user

  1. AP via AOL

    America.gov’s AI chatbot at launch, on the 2020 election

  2. CourtListener

    S.D.N.Y. opinion in ACLS v. NEH: the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants is unconstitutional

  3. 404 Media

    ELITE, the Palantir app ICE uses to find neighbourhoods to raid

  4. Breaking Defense

    Maven usage surged for strikes on Iran, Pentagon AI chief says

The promise

  1. The White House (archived)

    Fact sheet: the administration secures voluntary commitments from leading AI companies

  2. arXiv

    Wang, Huang, Klyman and Bommasani score how companies kept the 2023 commitments: average 53%

  3. Tech Policy Press

    Transcript of Donald Trump’s address at the “Winning the AI Race” event

The mirror

  1. TechCrunch

    Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models after 18 days

  2. Trump’s Truth Social (archive)

    “We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies!”

  3. National Law Review

    National security is not a blank check: the AI model retaliation ruling

  4. The White House

    Executive order: Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government

  5. CNBC

    Judge Rita Lin blocks the Pentagon’s blacklist as First Amendment retaliation

  6. Breaking Defense

    D.C. Circuit panel upholds the Pentagon’s designation, 2-1

The only rule

  1. Office of Governor Newsom

    California’s AI framework: the governor signs more first-in-the-nation worker protections

  2. California Legislative Information

    SB 947, the No Robo Bosses Act, text and status

Interviews and clips

  1. C-SPAN

    Trump at the accord signing: “a form of protection”, “morally binding”

  2. USA TODAY

    The White House accord event, with Dario Amodei and Mark Zuckerberg

  3. The White House

    Arrival ceremony for President Xi Jinping

  4. The Maybe

    KeShaun Pearson of Memphis Community Against Pollution on xAI’s turbines

  5. Bloomberg Television

    David Sacks on chip exports, the Gulf and the AI race

  6. The Ezra Klein Show

    Alex Bores on Leading the Future

  7. Mother Jones

    DHS built a face scanning app. You might already be in it.

  8. The New York Times DealBook Summit

    Alex Karp on China and ICE

  9. CBS News

    Dario Amodei with Margaret Brennan on the Pentagon’s demands

  10. Forbes

    Michael Kratsios at the UN Security Council on super intelligence