One further force promoting AI innovation could be defence spending. America puts only a tiny fraction of its $850bn defence budget into AI. Silicon Valley executives hope that the Trump administration will allow more participation by startups building AI weapons and systems in the competition for defence contracts.

President Trump hosted executives from Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle at the White House Tuesday to announce “Stargate,” a $500BN private-sector plan to build new AI data centers.

An executive order is an instruction from the president which has the weight of the law behind it. But Trump's order does not overturn the ban. Instead it tells the US attorney general not to enforce the law for now - something experts had expected would be his first move.

Trump is drafting a new blueprint for the presidency, one that demonstrates the primacy of blunt force in a democratic system predicated on checks and balances between the branches of government.

After President Donald Trump found a letter from President Joe Biden upon his return to the Oval Office, we've now learned what the 46th President of the United States said to his successor.