America's AI Action Plan
The White House released a plan of more than ninety measures built around acceleration: easier permits for data centres, export of American systems, removal of regulatory obstacles.
Why it matters
United States policy turned from managing risk to competing on pace, in the same year Europe brought obligations into effect.
The plan followed a January order that revoked Executive Order 14110. Three accompanying orders covered infrastructure, exports and requirements for models the government buys. Together with the refusal to sign the Paris declaration this made a consistent position: rules slow things down, the advantage is in pace. Europe went the opposite way the same month, and 2025 stands in the timeline as the moment the two approaches parted.