AISN #67: Trump’s preemption order, H200s go to China, and new frontier AI from OpenAI and DeepSeek

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required..

Welcome to the AI Safety Newsletter by the Center for AI Safety. We discuss developments in AI and AI safety. No technical background required.

In this edition we discuss President Trump's executive order targeting state AI laws, Nvidia's approval to sell China high-end accelerators, and new frontier models from OpenAI and DeepSeek.

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Executive Order Blocks State AI Laws

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at halting state efforts to regulate AI. The order, which differs from a version leaked last month, leverages federal funding and enforcement to evaluate, challenge, and limit state laws. The order caps off a year in which several ambitious state AI proposals were either watered down or vetoed outright.

A push for regulatory uniformity. The order aims to reduce regulatory friction for companies by eliminating the variety of state-level regimes and limit the power of states at impacting commerce beyond their own borders. It calls for replacing them with a single, unspecified, federal framework.

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Outline:

(00:34) Executive Order Blocks State AI Laws

(03:42) US Permits Nvidia to Sell H200s to China

(06:00) ChatGPT-5.2 and DeepSeek-v3.2 Arrive

(08:23) In Other News

(08:27) Industry

(09:13) Civil Society

(09:58) Government

(11:07) Discussion about this post

(11:11) Ready for more?

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First published:
December 17th, 2025

Source:
https://newsletter.safe.ai/p/ai-safety-newsletter-67-trumps-preemption

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