AI Policy & Regulation Alert

On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing an AI Cybersecurity Clearinghouse, a classified benchmarking process for frontier models, and a voluntary 30-day government early-access framework — while BIS closed the AI chip export loophole that had allowed Chinese-HQ'd firms' overseas units to receive Nvidia Blackwell chips without a license.

On May 13, 2025, the US Department of Commerce rescinded the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule just two days before it took effect — but simultaneously issued three new guidance documents that raise compliance risk for chip exporters, cloud providers, and anyone touching Huawei Ascend chips.