US executive branch. It enters the corpus with the order preempting state AI regulation, pulling against New York’s posthumous-likeness law on the same day, and a day later launches the Pax Silica Initiative to align the semiconductor stack with allies. It recurs as the federal actor in the buildout, taking a stake in USA Rare Earth, preempting a fifty-state patchwork again, and preparing an order against Anthropic as the lab sued the Pentagon.
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The White House
The US presidency as a policy actor: executive orders preempting state AI law, the Pax Silica initiative, and the federal side of the compute buildout.
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