Something changed quietly on August 1st that has enormous implications for the entire AI industry.

The Trump administration's AI executive order went into effect. And for the first time, the United States government has a formal, structured framework for regulating the most powerful AI systems on earth. AI Governance has finally come to the United States!

In this episode I'll break down what that actually means.

For the past several years, the AI industry has operated in what you might call a gentlemen's agreement era. The most powerful AI companies: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta; voluntarily committed to safety testing and government briefings.

That changed on August 1st.