By rolling back auto industry fuel efficiency goals, US president Donald Trump hopes to make new cars cheaper

The Trump administration might think regulation is killing the AI industry, but Anthropic president Daniela Amodei disagrees.

Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca was even considered a potential presidential candidate once upon a time. However, we have never seen the kind of ass kissing and cronyism we were privy to in this year's fickle friendship between Elon Musk and President Trump

Longtime Slashdot reader sinij shares a report from Car and Driver: [T]he Trump administration announced less stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in an effort to bring down the price of new vehicles

The Department of Transportation under President Donald Trump is moving to reverse more of the climate policies that had been enacted by President Joe Biden

Dec 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump met with chip giant Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday to discuss export controls, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Politico: Five months after releasing a plan to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is turning to robots

Letting AI firms train on copyrighted data will end up helping China, conservative groups argue A group of conservatives allied with President Donald Trump's MAGA movement, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, has asked the Justice Department and the White House to stop protecting Big Tech against copyright claims.

"Today, we're taking one more step to kill the 'Green New Scam,'" Trump said.

Istari CEO Will Roper was assistant secretary of the Air Force under President Donald Trump's first term and worked with Space Force.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told reporters on Capitol Hill that he had just met with President Trump, and the two "talked in general about export controls."

Widespread and powerful movement keeps Trump from blocking state AI laws.

A first-in-the-nation heating and cooling network in Massachusetts is set to double in size.

Trump says state-level AI regulations are hampering US growth as Chinese competition intensifies

AT&T accused of "financial play to curry favor" with Trump administration.

The Trump administration has been virtually begging immigrants in the US to self-deport, even offering money

But also aisles of breads, sauces and granola bars marketed as natural or healthy. It is a rare issue on which the liberal leaders in San Francisco City Hall are fully aligned with the Trump administration, which has targeted ultraprocessed foods as part of its Make America Healthy Again mantra

The last Trump official in the position left amid allegations of petty revenge

This year has been big for air taxi technology companies, which have seen a boost from President Donald Trump's pilot program to develop the sector.

The donation will help seed new Trump-branded investment accounts.

Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to boost participation in the new "Trump Accounts" child investment program

Isaacman backs Texas relocation amid warnings that costs could top $150M US President Donald Trump's nominee for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, is "committed to move the Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston," according to the office of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million into a startup (source paywalled; alternative source) trying to develop more advanced semiconductor manufacturing techniques in the U.S., its latest bid to support strategically important domestic industries with government incentives

A key driver of US renewable energy research is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies.

U.S. government to inject up to $150 million in xLight, a startup developing EUV light source based on a particle accelerator, with the first CHIPS and Science Act grant by the Trump Administration

The system, dubbed the "Michelangelo Dome" in a nod to Israel's Iron Dome and U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for a "Golden Dome," will integrate multiple defense systems to detect and neutralize threats from sea to air including missile attacks and drone swarms..

Despite an August release announcement and the collection of US$100 (RM413) deposits for the US$499 (RM2,060) device, there is still no evidence that the product presented in gold colour and with the American flag on the back is actually ready for the market

to impose 15% tariffs without retaliation. President Trump ignored European calls to pressure Moscow before meeting Vladimir Putin in Alaska in August, telling reporters "this is not to do with Europe, Europe's not telling me what to do." Germany has eased its debt brake to pour $580 billion into a decade-long rearmament program, and the EU has set a 2030 rearmament goal -- defense spending across the region is set to exceed $560 billion this year, double what it was a decade ago

An anonymous reader shares a report: The Pentagon concluded that Alibaba Group, Baidu and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military, according to a letter to Congress sent roughly three weeks before Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to a broad trade truce

"Stop this boring insider trading," one X user complained.

The EPA is prioritizing review of new chemicals to be used in data centers

"Secretary Kennedy has formally certified that these are the first ever MAHA turkeys," said Trump.

DOE told to build a unified research platform linking federal compute, datasets, and national labs US President Trump has ordered the launch of the "Genesis Mission," a national effort to use AI to drive scientific discoveries, with the aim of strengthening America's technological leadership and global competitiveness.

President Donald Trump has issued a new Executive Order that launches the Genesis Mission , an AI-focused initiative that will be led by the Department of Energy

There's a real plan here, of sorts.

BrianFagioli writes: President Trump has issued a sweeping executive order that creates the Genesis Mission, a national AI program he compares to a Manhattan Project level effort

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to launch a government-wide effort to build an integrated artificial intelligence platform to harness federal scientific datasets to train next-generation technologies

The PAC is mobilizing as President Donald Trump's White House and congressional Republicans are working to suppress states' ability to implement AI laws.

Is it located in the same place as the plan to repeal and replace Obamacare?

A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.

The RAISE Act would require large AI companies to publish safety and risk protocols and disclose serious safety incidents.

Since then, 20 more European countries have joined, most recently Finland and Sweden. US President Donald Trump has criticized fellow members' financial contribution to the alliance and at times cast doubt over how likely the US is to defend its NATO allies

The Trump administration's pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures.

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Despite the U.S

Donald Trump's administration has paused an executive order that would have preempted state regulations for AI.

And there's an additional Trump family connection.

Meanwhile, Stardust is seeking U.S. government contracts and quietly building an influence machine in Washington to lobby lawmakers and officials in the Trump administration on the need for a regulatory framework that it says is necessary to gain public approval for full-scale deployment...

Our mission and commitment to our culture and values remain unchanged: empowering every person and organization to achieve more. As Totilo notes, the Trump administration made it very clear early on that it was against government and corporate diversity, equality and inclusion programs

AI is good for politics and good for business too.

It's even easier now to search for names like Trump, Chomsky, and Summers.

President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk appeared to have made amends

Luke Igel / Riley Walz The US House Oversight Committee released the emails on November 12. Their revelations put Donald Trump's relationship with the sex trafficker back in the spotlight

Cruz plan to block broadband funding lost 99-1, but now it's backin Trump form.

The Trump administration has drafted an executive order that would effectively block states from enacting their own AI regulations

If at first you dont succeed, swing again - Big Tech certainly isnt complaining The Trump administration and congressional Republicans are trying again to eliminate state-level AI regulations in favor of a federal standard

PARIS (Reuters) -Cryptocurrency markets have surged in recent years, in part fuelled by the Trump administration's pro-crypto stance which has encouraged wider acceptance among financial institutions

States trying to regulate AI could be overruled by Trumps federal task force

They also continue to drive important A.I. research in industry and academia, despite the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration and growing anti-China sentiment in Silicon Valley

The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump is considering an executive order that would seek to preempt state laws on artificial intelligence through lawsuits and by withholding federal funding, according to a draft of the order seen by Reuters on Wednesday

The European Commissions "digital omnibus" now goes to the European Parliament for approval, where it could face serious opposition. While the proposals are likely to be welcomed by the rapidly-growing AI industry, sceptics could argue that watered down privacy and AI legislation is evidence of Europe bowing to pressure from big tech and Donald Trump, who has publicly criticized the EUs digital regulation

The event comes a day after President Donald Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House.

A reactor at the site suffered a partial meltdown in 1979 The Trump administration is so eager to get extra power into the grid that it is offering a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help it restart the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear facility.

Donald Trump has spent years benefiting from the QAnon's Jeffrey Epstein obsession

In the face of heavy travel restrictions imposed by the Trump administration, the United States announced that soccer fans going to the World Cup will enjoy a certain priority for processing tourist visa.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration will provide Constellation Energy with a $1 billion loan to restart the Crane Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, Department of Energy officials said Tuesday

The billionaire seems to be back in Trump's good graces.

A federal judge has sided with the social media company in a landmark antitrust case, ruling on Tuesday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had not proven that Meta is a monopoly. The FTC filed antitrust charges against Meta, then known as Facebook, in 2020 during President Donald Trump's first term

Jeffrey who?

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Meta did not illegally stifle competition when it acquired Instagram and WhatsApp. The decision marks Big Tech's first major victory against antitrust enforcement that began during President Donald Trump's first term

A group of U.S. Senators have sent a letter asking officials to investigate a Trump family-linked crypto company over reported business ties to illicit actors.

It's also, more specifically, the first company in a special Department of Energy pilot program aiming to get at least three startups to criticality by July 4 of next year to announce it had achieved this reaction. The pilot program, which was formed following an executive order President Donald Trump signed in May, has upended US regulation of nuclear startups, allowing companies to reach new milestones like criticality at a rapid pace