May 22, 2026 | 10:49am

President Trump said he postponed the signing of an executive order on artificial intelligence because he “didn’t like” all the details, arguing it would put American companies behind foreign competition. “I didn’t like certain aspects of it, I postponed it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I think it gets in the way of, you know, we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” he said. According to Reuters the order would have created "a voluntary framework for AI developers to engage with the U.S. government before the public release of advanced AI models."