TNB Tech Minute: Trump Signs Executive Order to Increase Federal Oversight of AI
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 2 June 2026
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| 0:19.7 | Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute. For Tuesday, June 2nd. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:26.7 | President Trump signed an executive order today, asking AI companies to give the administration |
| 0:31.7 | access to powerful models 30 days before public release. A previous version of the order had set a 90-day voluntary review |
| 0:40.2 | period, but was postponed last month. The order, which aims to strengthen federal oversight of the |
| 0:45.8 | tech, directs national security and cyber officials to collaborate with tech firms to address |
| 0:51.1 | vulnerabilities identified by models like Anthropics Methos. |
| 0:55.0 | The administration also approved Anthropics expansion of Mythos Access to roughly 150 |
| 1:00.8 | organizations around the world to identify software bugs and patch vulnerabilities. |
| 1:06.2 | The White House previously opposed the move because of security concerns. |
| 1:11.3 | The AI buildout has sent memory prices soaring, creating a supply crunch that will only get |
| 1:17.2 | worse next year. That's according to Taiwan-based research firm Trendforce. The firm says the top |
| 1:23.9 | three major memory chipmakers, Samsung Electronics, S.K. Heinex, and Micron will likely |
| 1:29.5 | increase high bandwidth memory or HBM prices for 2027. Surging prices of standard memory |
| 1:36.5 | have temporarily made locked-in HBM contracts less profitable, pushing manufacturers to negotiate |
| 1:43.4 | higher rates for next-generation technology. |
| 1:46.7 | Trend 4 says continued appetite for AI infrastructure will keep HBM demand high. |
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