Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, criticized a new executive order aimed at blocking states from creating their own artificial intelligence ( AI) regulations. Trump told reporters that “there’s only going to be one winner” as nations compete to dominate in the field of AI.

The executive order is the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration to hold back state-level AI rules. But many Republicans are also uncomfortable with the effort.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at increasing oversight of the proxy advisory industry, the White House said late on Thursday, charging that top firms often "advance and prioritize radical politically-motivated agendas.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday meant to override state regulations on artificial intelligence. The order is intended to boost the AI industry, which has been eager for a national law rolling back state regulations governing the fast-moving technology.

The order creates an "AI Litigation Task Force" to challenge state laws and uses federal funds for broadband access as a bargaining chip.

A small number of Republicans joined Democrats to vote in favor of reversing President Donald Trump's order on federal worker unions.

President Donald Trump's executive order stripped some federal agencies of their collective bargaining protections.

Trump is expected to tell agencies to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Such a move would allow cannabis companies to fall under different tax regulations and encourage investment, while placing pot in a class of drug that includes steroids and Tylenol with codeine.

Bipartisan House lawmakers push Senate to reverse Trump's federal worker union order as Rep. Jared Golden's bill gains GOP support in rare bipartisan move.