Leo Schwartz

Chris Fall, the director of the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is resigning after just three months on the job, a Commerce Department spokesperson confirmed. Axios earlier reported the news. Dr. Arvind Raman, the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which houses CAISI, will serve as acting director, the spokesperson added.Originally

As debate swirls in Washington, D.C. about how to regulate open-source Chinese AI models, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reiterated on Tuesday that the Trump administration supports open source, but does not support the theft of intellectual property. “If we see especially that overseas models are stealing from our great companies, we have the ability to sanction them because of this theft,”

This week, Trump administration officials have taken to the airwaves and X to blast Chinese open source AI companies like Moonshot, accusing them of stealing intellectual property from the likes of Anthropic and other U.S. AI developers. The administration’s concerns aren’t just rhetoric, ...

Many of the largest U.S. tech companies signed a joint letter on Friday defending open-source AI software as the Trump administration considers possible restrictions on Chinese labs. The letter—signed by Meta Platforms, Nvidia, Microsoft and Andreessen Horowitz, along with AI startups like Reflexity and Hugging Face—argued that open-weight AI models strengthen competition and expand access to

The Trump administration has invited staffers from major tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic to the White House on Tuesday to review the completed version of an AI oversight framework, according to five people familiar with the matter. The framework will create a voluntary ...

The Trump administration hosted tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google at the White House on Tuesday to brief them on its new voluntary AI framework, which was created as part of an early June executive order . The framework provides a system for top AI labs to share their models with the government before releasing them to the public and partners, though it is still unclear how

Craft Ventures, the VC firm helmed by former White House AI czar David Sacks, is raising its first fund since Sacks stepped away from the Trump Administration role earlier this year, according to a securities filing and two people with knowledge of the effort. The firm is targeting around $1 ...

Tarun Chhabra, a former Biden administration official who serves as Anthropic’s head of national security policy, is transitioning out of his role, according to a spokesperson. Chhabra will take on a new advisory role at Anthropic focused on geopolitics and national security policy and will continue to work with Anthropic leadership, the spokesperson added. It’s unclear if he will remain