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June 5, 2026 — Federal AI governance proposals, a new White House AI national-security memorandum, Canada's national AI strategy, Anthropic's Pentagon risk-designation lawsuit, X's FTC privacy-order petition, and Meta smart-glasses face-recognition code dominated the latest AI-law developments.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Contents

  1. Trump administration and OpenAI discuss possible government stake
  2. White House issues AI national-security memorandum
  3. House lawmakers circulate Great American AI Act discussion draft
  4. Canada launches AI for All national strategy
  5. Pentagon refuses to reverse Anthropic supply-chain risk designation
  6. X asks FTC to revisit Twitter privacy settlement order
  7. Meta smart-glasses face-recognition code raises privacy concerns

Trump administration and OpenAI discuss possible government stake

CNBC reported on June 5, 2026, that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House were in ongoing talks about a possible U.S. government stake in OpenAI.[11] The discussions reportedly included the possibility that OpenAI could donate equity to seed a public wealth fund that would let the public participate in AI-related upside.[11] President Donald Trump told reporters that proposals under consideration could give the American public a partnership interest, and CNBC reported that no official investment terms had been decided.[11]


White House issues AI national-security memorandum

President Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-11 on June 5, 2026, directing agencies to accelerate AI use in the national-security enterprise while rescinding the Biden administration's 2024 AI national-security memorandum.[2] The memorandum directs a new AI National Security Steering Committee to coordinate implementation and orders the Department of War to update its autonomous-weapons directive within 90 days.[2] The White House fact sheet says the directive aims to "accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains" and to align national-security AI systems with American values.[3] AP News reported that the directive also calls for early government evaluation access to frontier AI models and frames the policy as both a military-adoption and safety-governance initiative.[4] The memorandum is legally significant because it changes federal executive-branch AI governance for defense, intelligence, procurement, model evaluation, and autonomous-weapons policy.[2][4]


House lawmakers circulate Great American AI Act discussion draft

A bipartisan House discussion draft called the Great American AI Act would create a federal AI governance framework, codify the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource, promote U.S. leadership in international AI standards, extend cybersecurity information-sharing authorities, and expand NIST's AI work.[1] The draft would preempt states from regulating development of frontier AI models for three years, while preserving state authority over generally applicable laws and post-deployment regulation.[1] Nextgov/FCW reported that lawmakers described the proposal as a framework that would preempt state AI laws for three years.[12]


Canada launches AI for All national strategy

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada's AI for All national artificial intelligence strategy on June 4, 2026, describing it as a plan built around trust, opportunity, and sovereignty.[6] Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada's strategy page says the plan will support safe AI use, broad adoption, Canadian AI research and commercialization, infrastructure for sovereign AI, and AI governance aligned with Canadian values.[13] The Prime Minister's release says the strategy includes more than C$2 billion in previously announced and proposed AI-related investments, including funding for sovereign compute infrastructure, AI adoption by small and medium-sized businesses, and Canadian AI talent.[6]

Pentagon refuses to reverse Anthropic supply-chain risk designation

The U.S. Department of Defense denied Anthropic's request to reconsider the company's national-security supply-chain risk designation, federal attorneys disclosed in Anthropic's pending challenge to the designation.[7] Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the Pentagon would not reverse the designation, leaving the dispute for further court action in Anthropic's lawsuit over alleged retaliation and due-process violations.[8] The development matters for AI law because the case tests how national-security procurement powers can be applied to frontier AI vendors while those vendors contest the government's factual basis and procedure.[7]

See related case page: Anthropic PBC v U.S. Department of War.

X asks FTC to revisit Twitter privacy settlement order

The Federal Trade Commission said it was considering whether to set aside or modify the 2022 settlement order that required Twitter to pay $150 million and limited the platform's use of account-security data for targeted advertising.[5] X's petition argued that the order was imposed on a company that no longer exists after Twitter was renamed X and later merged into xAI and SpaceX-related corporate structures.[14] Ars Technica reported that Musk previously failed in 2023 to revoke the FTC order, which monitors the platform's data-handling practices through 2042.[14]

Meta smart-glasses face-recognition code raises privacy concerns

Buchodi reported that version 273.0.0.21 of Meta's Android companion app for smart glasses contained a dormant face-recognition pipeline, including face detection, embedding generation, and comparison components, even on a stock account.[9] Mashable reported that Meta characterized the code as exploratory and said it was not an active feature, while the finding nevertheless renewed privacy concerns about always-on camera glasses and biometric identification.[10] The story is legally significant because dormant biometric-identification functionality in consumer wearable software can implicate data-privacy, biometric-consent, and consumer-protection scrutiny even before public launch.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 FedScoop, "Bipartisan 'Great American AI Act' draft proposes new federal AI governance framework" (June 4, 2026).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The White House, "National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-11" (June 5, 2026).
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The White House, "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Signs Historic Directive on AI in the National Security Enterprise" (June 5, 2026).
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 AP News, "Trump calls for military to accelerate use of AI while protecting Americans" (June 5, 2026).
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Record, "FTC considers setting aside or modifying $150 million privacy penalty against X" (June 4, 2026).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Prime Minister of Canada, "Prime Minister Carney launches AI for All: Canada's new national artificial intelligence strategy" (June 4, 2026).
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 GovInfoSecurity, "DoD Says No to Anthropic Request for Reversing Blacklisting" (June 5, 2026).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Benzinga, "Pete Hegseth Confirms Pentagon Won't Back Down On Anthropic Risk Designation As Legal Fight Continues" (June 5, 2026).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Buchodi, "Meta's smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account" (June 5, 2026).
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Mashable, "Meta quietly added facial recognition code for smart glasses to its app" (June 5, 2026).
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 CNBC, Trump administration, OpenAI discussing possible government stake in the AI startup (June 5, 2026)
  12. ↑ Nextgov/FCW, "Lawmakers propose AI framework that would preempt state laws for 3 years" (June 4, 2026).
  13. ↑ Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, "Canada's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy: AI for All" (June 2026).
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Ars Technica, "Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling" (June 4, 2026).
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