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Executive orders are signed directives from the president that instruct the government to take action. Here’s what you need to know.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening that seeks to limit the ability of states to regulate artificial intelligence while attempting to thwart some existing state laws.

The order aims "to sustain and enhance the United States’ global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI," according to text published on the White House website.

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At at signing ceremony in the Oval Office, Trump said AI companies "want to be in the United States, and they want to do it here, and we have big inv

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