America's AI Action Plan

The Biden executive order had been revoked on 20 January 2025, the administration's first day, and on 23 July the replacement arrived. "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan" listed more than ninety federal actions under three headings, innovation, infrastructure and international leadership, and three executive orders were signed the same day: one to speed permits for data centres and power plants on federal land, one to create a programme for exporting American models, chips and standards as a package, and one requiring that models bought by the government be free of ideological bias, which the order called "woke AI".

The plan kept the export controls on chips to China and the reporting relationships the laboratories had already built with the government's safety institute, renamed the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, and dropped the testing and watermarking requirements of 2023. Its premise was competition with China, and the DeepSeek releases of January were cited throughout.

It is on this timeline beside the EU's Act as the other pole of the policy debate. Within a year the tension inside its own logic, between promoting American models and controlling them, surfaced when the Commerce Department briefly restricted Anthropic's most capable model in June 2026.