Pentagon CTO says US will name laws for AI labs within two weeks

Pentagon Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael said Washington will announce within two weeks which existing regulations apply to U.S. AI laboratories. Michael, second-in-command of the government’s Super Intelligence Task Force, aims to build public trust and clarify current rules instead of creating a new AI statute or licensing system, but he did not identify the laws or how they would be enforced. President Trump’s June 2 executive order required agencies to draft classified evaluations of frontier AI models and proposed a voluntary review of up to 30 days before release to trusted partners, ruling out mandatory pre-clearance. Starting August 2, 2025, the EU AI Act imposes binding obligations on general-purpose AI providers, including technical documentation, training-data summaries and copyright rules.