David Sacks

Rule Changes

Appointed December 2024

The FTC just tore up its own rulebook. On December 22, 2025, the agency voted 2-0 to reverse a year-old enforcement action against Rytr, an AI writing tool accused of enabling fake reviews.

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Rule Changes

Key architect of the White House’s light-touch, federal-first AI strategy.

Donald Trump just turned AI regulation into a states' rights knife fight. His new executive order creates a Justice Department "AI Litigation Task Force" to attack state AI laws. Washington can threaten to withhold $42 billion in broadband funds from states that don't comply.

Updated 5 days ago

New Capabilities

Stepped down as White House AI/Crypto Czar March 2026; now co-chairs PCAST with broader tech policy remit; separately funding pro-deregulation candidates via Innovation Council Action PAC

In early 2026, America's AI manufacturing strategy is being pulled apart from within at the same moment China is accelerating. The Trump White House released a National AI Legislative Framework on March 20, 2026, formally asking Congress to preempt all state AI laws—but California, Colorado, and New York have pledged to keep enforcing their own rules and are preparing court challenges. The administration's most visible AI champion, David Sacks, stepped down as White House AI and Crypto Czar on March 26, 2026, moving to co-chair the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Separately, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been quietly dismantling the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership—the nationwide network of 600 centers serving small manufacturers—by freezing then sunsetting their federal funding, drawing bipartisan Senate criticism and casting a shadow over the March 2026 confirmation hearing for NIST director nominee Arvind Raman, a Purdue University engineering dean who advanced on a 16-12 party-line vote.

Updated Apr 26

New Capabilities

Coordinating federal AI policy

The White House mobilized America's 17 national laboratories and tech's biggest players—OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA—for what officials call the AI equivalent of the Manhattan Project. The Genesis Mission aims to double US research productivity in a decade by connecting supercomputers, quantum systems, and AI into one discovery platform. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced 24 corporate partners at a January 11 summit, each signing up to cement American technological dominance. Days later, OpenAI and SoftBank committed $1 billion to a 1.2-gigawatt Texas data center, while NVIDIA's Jensen Huang unveiled hardware promising AI tokens at one-tenth the cost.

Updated Jan 13

Rule Changes

Consulting on which state laws to challenge

The DOJ's AI Litigation Task Force began operations on January 10, 2026, with one mission: kill state AI laws in federal court. California, Texas, and Colorado passed comprehensive AI regulations throughout 2025—transparency requirements, discrimination protections, governance mandates. President Trump's December executive order called them unconstitutional burdens on interstate commerce. Now Attorney General Pam Bondi's team will challenge them, consulting with AI czar David Sacks on which laws to target first.

Updated Jan 12