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PM Mark Carney's AI for All commits $2.3 billion to hit 250,000 new jobs and 60% business adoption by 2034 - but critics call it a wish list without hard delivery mechanisms.

Trump signed a narrowed AI executive order giving the government 30 days of voluntary pre-release access to frontier models, after industry lobbying gutted the original 90-day mandatory proposal.

China's government has extended travel restrictions to AI researchers at Alibaba, DeepSeek, and other private firms, requiring official approval before they can leave the country.

Iranian IRGC-linked group Nimbus Manticore used AI coding tools to build a new backdoor during the US-Iran conflict, targeting aviation and software firms across three campaign waves.

Trump scrapped a White House AI executive order signing ceremony at the last minute, citing concerns about US competitiveness - even as Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber showed AI can now find and exploit zero-days at scale.

Trump and Xi announced plans for a formal AI safety channel at their Beijing summit, but expert skepticism and stalled chip deals complicate the picture.

NIST's CAISI has signed pre-deployment evaluation agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, bringing the total number of frontier labs under US government review to five.

The Pentagon signed AI agreements with eight tech companies for its most classified military networks, pointedly excluding Anthropic even as courts battle over its blacklist status.

NSA is running Anthropic's Mythos Preview while the Pentagon - its parent department - formally brands Anthropic a supply chain risk and fights in court to keep the company out of federal systems.

Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent at the White House on April 17, while Trump - standing on a Phoenix runway - said he had 'no idea' about the meeting.

Google is negotiating to deploy Gemini on classified Pentagon networks, the same tier Anthropic was blacklisted for refusing to serve without safeguards.

The Trump administration is simultaneously suing Anthropic in federal court over a supply chain risk designation and sending Treasury Secretary Bessent and Fed Chair Powell to convince Wall Street banks to use Anthropic's most powerful model.