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WSJ Minute Briefing

Trump Signs AI Order to Curb State Power

WSJ Minute Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Business News, News

4.1671 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: OpenAI rolls out a new version of ChatGPT in a bid to move ahead of competition from Google and Anthropic. And Lulelemon’s CEO plans to step down following a pressure campaign from the company’s outspoken founder. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

0:38.9

President Trump has signed an executive order that empowers the Justice Department to punish

0:43.1

states whose AI laws are deemed to be too restrictive. Tech execs had lobbied for such a move,

0:49.7

arguing that the more than 1,000 AI bills proposed at the state level could cause the U.S. to lose out

0:56.1

to China. Democrats and some of Trump's backers, including Steve Bannon and Republican Senator

1:01.7

Josh Hawley have criticized efforts to rein in state AI laws, characterizing them as a giveaway

1:07.6

to tech companies and saying they'd undermine state's efforts to protect consumers.

1:13.1

Meanwhile, OpenAI is rolling out a new version of ChatGPT as it tries to fend off mounting

1:18.4

competition from Google and Anthropic. OpenAI said the new model dubbed GPT 5.2 was better at math,

1:26.1

science, and coding, skills seen as critical if businesses are to see

1:30.1

returns on their AI investments. The release comes about a week after Chief Executive

1:34.5

Sam Altman declared a so-called code-red effort to improve the quality of chat GPT and to delay

1:40.9

development of other initiatives, including advertising.

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