Five months after Meta's $14 billion deal, Scale AI has lost some of its gleam, with workers sniping about pay, and rivals coming for its clientele.

Proponents of AI preemption equate competitiveness with deregulation, arguing that state-level guardrails hamper innovation and weaken the United States in its technological competition with China. The reality is the opposite.

The $150 million AI lobbying war is reshaping U.S. tech policy as coalitions clash over federal preemption, state authority and the future of AI regulation.

The order, titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence, represents the administration’s most decisive move yet.

Meta Platforms Inc faces a full-scale antitrust investigation from the European Union as early as this week over how its AI features in WhatsApp may be harming competition.