Donald Trump speaks at a summit on AI at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, on July 23, 2025. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP
The tech billionaires who voted for him in 2024 did not back him for nothing. On Wednesday, July 23, US President Donald Trump presented a vision for the development of artificial intelligence technology that was largely based on the ideas of major Silicon Valley figures, rolling back the tentative regulatory safeguards that his predecessor, Joe Biden, had tried to put in place.
Speaking at the "AI Summit" held at Washington's Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, an event that was then broadcast on the podcast of tech investor David Sacks, who has become an AI adviser to the White House, Trump signed three executive orders intended to secure the US's "global dominance" in AI. None of the CEOs of major tech companies attended the ceremony.
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