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Here’s all the AI stuff in Trump’s tax bill

Over $2 billion is allocated to deploying AI for nuclear weapons programs, autonomous underwater drones, and sovereign AI models.

Jon Keegan

7/2/25 1:00PM

Yesterday the Senate passed President Trump’s massive tax bill, and today it heads to the House, where it faces an uncertain future.

The text of the bill is loooong — it spans 870 pages as a PDF and is full of allocations of federal dollars for Trump’s priorities, including over $2 billion for AI programs for defense, energy, and homeland security.

Top AI insiders might hold a lot of sway in this administration, but tech companies like Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, and OpenAI did suffer a major loss yesterday when a key provision to halt all state-level AI regulation for a decade was removed from the bill.

Things could change in the House, but let’s take a look at all the AI-related things that made it through the Senate.

Defense

💣 Resources for scaling low-cost weapons into production

$124,000,000 for improvements to Test Resource Management Center artificial intelligence capabilities
$250,000,000 for the expansion of Cyber Command artificial intelligence lines of effort

💻 Improving efficiency and cybersecurity

$200,000,000 for the deployment of automation and artificial intelligence to accelerate the audits of the financial statements of the Department of Defense

☢️ Enhancement of resources for nuclear forces

$115,000,000 for accelerating nuclear national security missions through artificial intelligence

⛴️ Enhancement of Department of Defense resources for shipbuilding

$188,360,000 for the development and testing of maritime robotic autonomous systems and enabling technologies
$174,000,000 for the development of a Test Resource Management Center robotic autonomous systems proving ground
$200,000,000 for the development, procurement, and integration of mass-producible autonomous underwater munitions
$500,000,000 to prevent delays in delivery of attritable autonomous military capabilities
$75,000,000 to contract the services of, acquire, or procure autonomous maritime systems

Energy

🤖 Transformational artificial AI models ($150 million)

“American science cloud”: a system of US government, academic, and private sector programs and infrastructures utilizing cloud computing technologies to facilitate and support scientific research, data sharing, and computational analysis across various disciplines while ensuring compliance with applicable legal, regulatory, and privacy standards
Mobilize National Laboratories to partner with industry sectors within the United States to curate the scientific data of the Department of Energy across the National Laboratory complex so that the data is structured, cleaned, and preprocessed in a way that makes it suitable for use in artificial intelligence and machine learning models
Initiate seed efforts for self-improving artificial intelligence models for science and engineering

Homeland Security

🚔 Border security, technology, and screening

$168,000,000 for procurement and integration of new nonintrusive inspection equipment and associated civil works, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other innovative technologies, as well as other mission support, to combat the entry or exit of illicit narcotics at ports of entry and along the southwest, northern, and maritime borders

Rural hospitals

🏥 Rural health transformation program ($50 billion)

Providing training and technical assistance for the development and adoption of technology-enabled solutions that improve care delivery in rural hospitals, including remote monitoring, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other advanced technologies

South by Southwest Conference and Festivals

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TAKING ACCOUNTS

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Britain announces social media ban for under-16s starting early 2027

The UK government plans to use the same model for the restrictions as Australia — but how successful has that case study been so far?

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Anthropic pulls Fable and Mythos access worldwide after Trump administration bars their use by foreign nationals

Only days after releasing two versions of its next-gen AI model, Anthropic has disabled them for users worldwide.

Anthropic says it received a Friday night order from the Trump administration to suspend access to the models for any foreign national (anywhere in the world) — a group that included some Anthropic employees. In response, the company turned off access to everyone.

Last week, the company released to the public its much-anticipated Claude Fable 5 model (and its restricted version Claude Mythos 5, which is still being tested with trusted partners). Anthropic said in a blog post announcing the action that officials cited national security concerns with the new models, while offering few specific details.

The post said that the government gave the company “verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak” of the public Fable 5 model. A jailbreak is a means by which users can evade restrictions built into the code to unlock prohibited functionality. Anthropic downplayed the significance of the attack, and said other major models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, could also be affected by the technique described.

Fears of these first Mythos-class models being misused are running high, after Anthropic warned the cybersecurity world in May that the advanced cyber capabilities of Mythos have rapidly discovered thousands of vulnerabilities in ubiquitous software, leading to the decision to restrict the full version of the model to a close group of trusted partners for testing.

This morning, Axios reported that Anthropic technical staff have flown to Washington to meet with White House officials to resolve the issue.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Trump administration’s decision to take action against Anthropic was prompted by discussions that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy had with officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. According to the report, Amazon researchers said they had been able to evade some of Fable 5’s security restrictions using specific prompts. Amazon is a major investor in Anthropic.

Anthropic is currently suing the US government to fight the Pentagon’s blacklisting of the company on national security grounds.

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

This morning, Axios reported that Anthropic technical staff have flown to Washington to meet with White House officials to resolve the issue.

Anthropic is currently suing the US government to fight the Pentagon’s blacklisting of the company on national security grounds.

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Tesla used skewed data in push for European FSD approval, Reuters finds

Tesla has used highly questionable safety stats in an effort to win over European regulators and rekindle sales in the region, according to a Reuters investigation.

Tesla reportedly pitched regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands with claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) tech is over 7x safer than human drivers. However, independent researchers told Reuters that the stats are misleading because Tesla compares airbag-deployment crashes involving FSD-equipped vehicles with much broader US crash statistics, while also benchmarking newer Teslas against the entire US vehicle fleet, which is significantly older on average.

Despite the flawed metrics, the Dutch regulator approved FSD in April, saying its decision was based on its own “tests, analyses and verifications,” and Tesla is now pushing for EU-wide clearance. A version of FSD is currently available in five European markets.

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Report: Microsoft weighs Xbox spin-off amid major overhaul

Microsoft is reportedly considering spinning out or restructuring its struggling Xbox unit, per The Information. While new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who took over in February, is preparing for layoffs, she’s simultaneously planning to boost investment in its biggest franchises like “Halo,” “Fallout,” and “Minecraft.”

The latest potential shake-up comes as the gaming division battles major headwinds, following a massive 33% plunge in Q3 console sales and a recent move to slash Game Pass prices while removing new “Call of Duty” titles.