Trump Announces 'AI Force' and Plans to Name an AI Czar, Offering No Details on Its Authority
Trump said he is forming an 'AI Force' modeled on Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, but gave no details on its structure or authority.
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Trump said he is forming an 'AI Force' modeled on Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, but gave no details on its structure or authority.
Trump officials reviewed a voluntary 30-day pre-release testing framework for frontier AI models with major labs this week, but say they won't publish it, drawing criticism from lawmakers and policy groups.
A coming White House executive order would require AI labs to share frontier models with the government 90 days before public release, but infighting between economic and national security factions has delayed the response to Anthropic's Mythos.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released guidance on April 14, 2026, directing NASA and the Pentagon to run parallel reactor design competitions aimed at demonstrating space fission power as early as 2028.
The First Lady hosted representatives from over 40 countries at the Fostering the Future Together summit, where a Figure 3 humanoid robot delivered opening remarks and Trump proposed a vision of always-available AI home tutors that drew bipartisan criticism from educators and lawmakers.
Figure 03 appeared alongside First Lady Melania Trump at a global education summit, greeting 45 delegations in multiple languages.
The Trump administration released a seven-pillar legislative blueprint on March 20 that asks Congress to override state AI laws and adopt a light-touch federal approach, drawing opposition from both parties.
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI pledge to fund their own power generation for AI data centers, but experts question enforceability as moratorium bills spread across U.S. states.