President Donald Trump is heading into the 2026 election year vowing to pull out all the stops to promote artificial intelligence — just as American voters are starting to voice some doubts.

President Donald Trump said he will withhold federal broadband funding from states whose laws to regulate artificial intelligence are judged by his administration to be holding back American dominance in the technology.

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

A photo is circulating on social media that appears to show President Donald Trump using a walker, but it is AI-generated . The image was originally posted on X by Democratic strategist Keith Edwards, and has been viewed 6 million times early on Friday.

President Trump pushes back on a Wall Street Journal report saying China’s huge power grid gives it an AI edge, insisting new U.S. data centers will make their own energy.

State lawmakers are increasingly proposing bills to regulate the use of AI in the housing industry, over concerns that the technology could be used to promote anti-competitive and discriminatory practices.