Overview

• Federal agencies have started enacting more than 90 measures under the plan’s three pillars of deregulation, infrastructure buildout and international diplomacy.
• The plan orders agencies to identify and repeal rules that hinder AI and to direct federal funding away from states with stringent AI regulations.
• Treasury guidance now permits tax-free reimbursement for AI training costs and a new AI Workforce Research Hub has launched to study labor market impacts.
• South Korea’s experts warn that U.S. full-stack export strategies could undermine their sovereign AI ambitions by confining domestic firms to downstream roles.
• China’s proposal for a multilateral AI governance framework underscores the intensifying U.S.-China competition over global AI standards and leadership.