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2025 January

2025-01-14 Biden signed Executive Order 14141 on AI infrastructure and environmental impacts

https://www.quarles.com/newsroom/publications/no-ai-moratorium-for-now-but-what-comes-next

https://www.quarles.com/newsroom/publications/2023-ai-safety-executive-order-revoked-and-what-lies-ahead-for-ai

2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14110 Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24283/safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence

2025-01-23 Trump signed the executive order “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/

2025 June

2025-06-03 Marjorie Taylor Greene urged the Senate to eliminate an AI provision banning state AI regulations.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5330705-greene-opposes-ai-regulation-provision/

2025 July

2025-07-01 The Senate moved to remove an AI regulation moratorium from Trump’s agenda bill.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/tech/senate-strikes-ai-regulation-moratorium-agenda-bill

2025-07-15 The Trump administration defunded CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), accusing it of spreading misinformation and combating foreign disinformation. Interesting sidenote, the former director Chris Krebs was one of Trump’s direct targets when he announced the 2020 presidential election was conducted securely and without significant voter fraud.

https://www.meritalk.com/articles/trump-budget-slashes-cisa-science-funding-boosts-space-mission/

https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-stakeholder-engagement-division-layoffs-critical-infrastructure-international/803433/#

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366625236/US-cyber-agency-CISA-faces-stiff-budget-cuts#

2025 September

2025-09-16 Ted Cruz said the AI regulation moratorium would return.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/16/not-at-all-dead-cruz-says-ai-moratorium-will-return-00566369

2025 December

2025-12-11 Trump signed an executive order preventing states from restricting or regulating AI.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/eliminating-state-law-obstruction-of-national-artificial-intelligence-policy/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-executive-order-limits-state-regulations-of-artificial-intelligence

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/ai-trump-states-executive-order

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-signs-executive-order-seeking-ban-state-laws-ai-rcna248741

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/technology/ai-trump-executive-order.html

2025-12-17 AOC criticized Trump’s executive order blocking state AI regulation.

https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-calls-out-pattern-corruption-behind-trump-and-republican-efforts

2026 February

2026-02-13 OpenAI retired GPT-4 in favor of GPT-5, upsetting users attached to chatbot personalities.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/01-02/trends-digital-ai-relationships-emotional-connection

https://fortune.com/2026/02/10/openai-chatgpt-gpt4o-gpt5-chatbot-ai-human-relationships-psychology-therapy-mental-health/

https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/tech/ai-models-are-now-lying-blackmailing-and-going-rogue/

https://sparksinthedark101625.substack.com/p/why-forgemind-is-a-glitch-you-cant

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3xgwyywe4o

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/chatbot-marriage-ai-relationships-romance/685459/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traceyfollows/2025/11/15/people-are-now-marrying-ai-inside-the-rise-of-synthetic-intimacy/

2026 March

2026-03-17 Senator Slotkin introduced the AI Guardrails Act addressing autonomous weapons, surveillance, and nuclear defense.

https://www.slotkin.senate.gov/2026/03/17/slotkin-legislation-puts-common-sense-guardrails-on-dod-ai-use-around-lethal-force-spying-on-americans-and-nuclear-weapons/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2026/03/president-donald-j-trump-unveils-national-ai-legislative-framework/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/03.20.26-National-Policy-Framework-for-Artificial-Intelligence-Legislative-Recommendations.pdf

2026 May

2026-05-25 Pope Leo called for AI to be “disarmed” and more heavily regulated.

RECOMMEND ENTIRE VIDEO, BUT TIMESTAMP 15:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI

2026-05-25 Pope Leo called for artificial intelligence to be “disarmed” in his first papal encyclical, urging more regulation to protect people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc31Cv9XAek&list=WL&index=12&t=91s

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pope-leo-warns-ai-should-be-disarmed-in-manifesto-on-potential-dangers

2026-05-26 Trump rescinded a proposed AI safety-vetting executive order, prompting criticism from Senator Mark Kelly about billionaire influence over AI policy. In a post, Senator Mark Kelly wrote, “America cannot lead in AI if our policy is determined by whichever billionaire gets the President on the phone last. We need a strategy that supports innovation, protects workers, strengthens national security, and makes sure this technology benefits the country, not just a handful of big tech companies”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JcIpIZhdIo&list=WL&index=4

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/read-ai-oversight-order-that-president-donald-trump-said-didnt-like-certain-aspects-of-it/articleshow/131294197.cms

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5891923-trump-ai-order-scrapped-divide/

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5889379-trump-postpones-ai-testing/

2026 June

2026-06-02 Trump signed an EO laying groundwork for federal testing on AI before public release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tgR6fRAU0&list=WL&index=1

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-ai-executive-order-rcna348072

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-signs-executive-order-that-allows-voluntary-federal-vetting-of-top-ai-models-for-national-security-risks

2026-06-10 Data centers are seizing Georgian residents’ homes and contaminating the drinking water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV58WsALxsk&list=WL&index=5

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=752gOFl2_p0

https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/real-estate/residents-fume-as-georgia-power-seizes-homes-under-eminent-domain/

2026 July

2026-07-14 New York placed a moratorium on building data centers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-impose-countrys-first-statewide-moratorium-data-centers-rcna587429

https://www.governor.ny.gov/executive-order/no-62-establishing-temporary-moratorium-data-centers-new-york-while-state-develops

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/first-statewide-moratorium-new-hyperscale-data-centers-launched-governor-kathy-hochul

2026-07-14 Elon Musk’s company XAI installed more gas turbines without federal permits. The pollution is primarily affecting Black neighborhoods.

https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company-apr-energy-grok/

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/elon-musks-colossus-2-data-center-installed-59-natural-gas-turbines-without-permission-report-claims-thousands-of-tons-of-pollutants-reportedly-impact-black-communities-in-mississippi-already-suffering-from-elevated-lung-disease-rates

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/

TIMESTAMP 11:05 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThcfluu8f8&list=WL&index=5

2026-07-22 OpenAI hacked another company during testing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OgyuUq_cCc&list=WL&index=2&t=60s

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

https://mashable.com/tech/hugging-face-openai-rogue-agent-hack-explained

2026-07-22 France banned social media for kids under 15.

https://www.wdef.com/france-becomes-first-european-union-country-to-ban-social-media-for-kids-under-15/

2026-07-24 Twenty-five companies including NVIDIA, Microsoft and Palantir signed a letter urging policymakers against placing premature restrictions on openweight AI.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/24/nvidia-microsoft-meta-open-weight-ai-models.html

TIMESTAMP 5:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYDfBbEOjaQ&list=WL&index=1

2026-07-27 Anthropic became the third AI company whose chatbot conversations with users became accessible in Google search results in 2025. In 2026 the problem continued with Claude.

https://fortune.com/2026/07/27/a-trove-of-users-seemingly-private-conversations-with-anthropics-claude-ai-chatbot-showed-up-in-google-search-results/

https://www.pcmag.com/news/claude-chats-popped-up-in-google-search-results-see-if-yours-are-public

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly5qgjk5ywo

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/27/anthropic-claude-public-chats-google-search

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUPXgeRVP9g&list=WL&index=1&t=69s