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2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14110 Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.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