Administration adopts the “One Rule” Executive Order: deregulating state-level AI requirements to gain an edge in the “five-layer stack”

On December 12, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at obstructing the regulation of artificial intelligence, instructing the U.S. Attorney General to create an "AI Litigation Task Force" to challenge state AI laws that contradict this order.

The order also directs the Secretary of Commerce to publish an assessment of existing state AI laws and issue a notice specifying the conditions under which states can retain eligibility for funding under the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program.

Deregulation of AI requirements at the state level through the "One Rule Executive Order" eliminates regulatory fragmentation that hindered the scaling of models, data centers, and computing infrastructure within states, creating conditions for the industry's transition to a new stage of industrial deployment.