President Donald Trump prepares to sign an executive order on AI in the Oval Office in Washington, DC, on December 11, 2025. Al Drago/Reuters

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order that blocks states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence and instead aims to create a “single national framework” for AI.

“This is an executive order that orders aspects of your administration to take decisive action to ensure that AI can operate within a single national framework in this country, as opposed to being subject to state level regulation that could potentially cripple the industry,” White House aide Will Scharf said of the executive order in the Oval Office.

The order could have far-reaching effects on US efforts to dominate the nascent tech

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