First week at the White House: Here are all the decrees signed by Trump that will have an impact on technology

Euronews returns to the first measures adopted by the American president and their future consequences for the tech sector.

The first week of Donald Trump’s new mandate as President of the United States ended with the signing of a series of decrees aimed at promoting science and technology.

The president has given priority to an agreement of $ 500 billion (476 billion euros) for investments in artificial intelligence infrastructure (AI), to the formation of advisory advice on digital assets and postponed Tiktok’s ban in his first announcements.

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Cancellation of the measures taken by Joe Biden in terms of AI

The most recent measure of President Trump is a decree which revokes certain policies of the Biden era which, according to the administration, “Act obstacles to American innovation in AI”.

The decree signed on January 23 gives senior officials from the Trump administration six months to formulate an AI action plan that will allow the country to develop systems “Expected by ideological prejudices or developed social agendas”.

Donald Trump also gives his administration time to examine all the policies implemented within the framework of the previous decree of Mr. Biden and “Suspend, revise or cancel” Those who do not correspond to the president’s vision in terms of AI.

A European diplomat specializing in technologies previously declared to Euronews that the revocation of Mr. Biden’s decree was one of the only promises made by Trump about AI during his electoral campaign.

Experts have also said that the American Safety Institute of AI, an organization created under the previous Joe Biden decree to study the safe implementation of AI systems, could be threatened with closure.

A committee responsible for establishing national initiatives

D. Trump also created the Chair Committee for Science and Technology Advisors (PCAST), a advice of 24 experts who will help the administration to “Trace the way for American leadership in the field of science and technology”.

This committee is not new: he works with each new American administration on these questions, but the committee of the new president will “Refocus” scientific and technological policy to give priority to “Excellence focused on results and achievements based on merit”, According to the White House.

The Council will launch national initiatives and guide research on AI and quantum energy, autonomous driving systems, drones and biotechnology.

One of the members of this committee is David Sacks, a former Paypal executive who has become TSAR’s so-called “TSAR” for AI and cryptography.

In December, the billionaire wrote on his social media platform Truth Social that the mandate of David Sacks will be to guide the policy on AI, the crypto, the “Safeguarding freedom of expression online” and the remoteness of the United States of “Prejudices and censorship of Big Tech”.

$ 500 billion for AI infrastructure

President Trump also proposed a joint venture With up to $ 500 billion (476 billion euros) invested in AI.

According to La Maison-Blanche, Stargate, the new partnership between Openai, Oracle and Softbank, will begin to build the data centers and electricity production necessary for the development of AI in full evolution in Texas.

An initial investment of $ 100 billion (95 billion euros) will be carried out, but the project could reach this amount five times, according to the Associated Press.

“This is a large sum and high quality people”, said Trump, adding that it was a “Related declaration of confidence in the potential of America” under its new administration. “

Other partners are expected, notably Microsoft, the investor MGX, the manufacturers of Arm and Nvidia fleas.

Selon l’Associated Press, Stargate’s initial plans date back to the Biden administration.

Technological media The Information reported on the project for the first time in March 2024. Openai has been based for a long time on Microsoft’s data centers to build its AI systems, but the company has increasingly expressed its interest in the construction of its own data centers.

Trump prohibits the digital American dollar

This week, Trump also took on a decree authorizing citizens and businesses to “Opening public blockchain networks without being persecuted”.

The decree also undertakes to develop “Legal and legitimate stable currencies backed by the dollar”in order to protect the “sovereignty” of the US dollar.

The decree also prohibits the digital currencies of central banks (CBDC), because a digital form of the US dollar controlled by the central bank of the country could “Threaten the stability of the financial system, the privacy of individuals and the sovereignty of the United States”according to the decree.

Mr. Trump also sets up an advisory committee on the digital asset markets, chaired by Mr. Sacks, who, within six months, will develop A regulatory framework for “emission and operation” of digital assets.

Their recommendations will focus on the way in which the United States could create and manage a national stock of cryptocurrencies that could be created from all cryptocurrencies seized by the government, a promise made by Mr. Trump during his campaign electoral.

Throughout his re-election campaign, the tenant of the oval office undertook to make the United States the “World capital of cryptography”.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump have since launched their cryptocurrency memes, whose value has skyrocketed during the first week of their mandate. A business that has reopened the debate on conflicts of interest between the new president and his business.

Extension de TikTok

One of the first measures taken by Trump as president was to extend the famous entertainment application Tiktok by 75 days, so that its Chinese owner bytedance can find an American buyer.

L’Application prohibition was approved by the Congress and confirmed by the Supreme Court, which led to a temporary interruption of the social media application of short videos on January 19.

Since then, the application has been temporarily restored for American users, but it is still not available on Google and Apple application stores.

Despite the refusal of Bytedance to sell, several buyers have manifested themselves in recent days, including a consortium including the star of Youtube Jimmy Donaldson, alias Mr Beast, and “The People’s Bid”, supervised by the billionaire Frank McCourt.