Meta vs. the U.S.: The invisible battle to control AI

Meta is the only major U.S. technology company refusing to sign the Trump administration’s AI review agreement. What’s behind that decision, and what’s really at stake?

In June 2025, Trump signed an executive order requiring companies to submit their frontier artificial intelligence models to a 30-day federal review before releasing them to the public. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and xAI signed. Meta did not. In this episode, we explore the paradox facing Zuckerberg’s company: how the open-source model that made it a leader in AI is exactly what complicates its relationship with Washington, and what precedent the Anthropic case set for the entire industry.

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