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TNB Tech Minute: White House Prepares Executive Order Targeting ‘Woke AI’

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Netflix is looking to boost user engagement. Australian mining company Fortescue is rethinking its new U.S. green-energy projects due to Trump’s policies. Ariana Aspuru hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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go to amazon.com.uk.U.com. Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute for Friday, July 18th.

0:36.4

I'm Mariana Asputu for the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.3

White House officials are preparing an executive order targeting tech companies with what they

0:44.0

see as woke artificial intelligence models. This is according to people familiar with the matter,

0:49.4

and it's the latest effort to go after diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The order would mandate that AI

0:55.9

companies, getting federal contracts, be politically neutral and unbiased in their AI models.

1:01.8

This is to combat what the administration sees as a liberal bias in some models, the people said.

1:07.6

Because nearly all major tech companies are competing for their tools to be used by the

1:12.1

federal government, the order could have far-reaching impacts. People familiar with the matter also

1:17.7

said, the executive order would be one of several expected to be released next week, where Trump

1:22.8

is outlining his vision for winning the AI race with China. Plus, UBS analysts say that Netflix is looking to boost

1:30.8

user engagement with a new slate of content and programming. Engagement was up 1.8% in the first

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