The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation - WIRED

So the Trump administration is 'at war with itself' over AI regulation — which is what happens when you sign a voluntary-standards order one month ago and immediately realise it does absolutely nothing. White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is now leading a faction that wants to resurrect exactly the kind of broader executive order that Trump nixed last month. Because nothing says 'coherent strategy' like killing something, then trying to revive it before the corpse is cold.

Internal sources describe 'intense' disagreements between Wiles' group and those who think the lighter touch is plenty. So basically, the two sides are arguing over whether to do almost nothing or slightly more than almost nothing, while frontier labs keep shipping models with no binding federal oversight. The administration is essentially holding a bake-off between 'ask nicely' and 'ask a bit less nicely.'

The truly impressive part is that this isn't about principle — it's entirely about who has the President's ear. Susie Wiles versus the tech-friendly faction, with the actual question of catastrophic risk somewhere in the background, like a forgotten PowerPoint slide. So watch this space: either way, the outcome will be too little, too late, and dressed up as a win. Cheers, lads.