VP Vance makes first overseas trip to Paris

On Monday, US Vice President JD Vance and his family arrived in Paris for the VP to attend a global AI Action summit on his first trip overseas since taking office last month.

The AI Summit runs Monday and Tuesday, will draw world leaders, top tech executives and policymakers where they will tackle five themes: public interest AI, jobs, investment, ethics, regulation.

Tech heavyweights Sam Altman of OpenAI, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai joined European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Canada's outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a $112.6 billion investment in his nation's artificial intelligence sector ahead of the gathering at the Grand Palais.

Last week, the White House said that Vance will attend a series of conferences on technology and international security in Europe as part of his first foreign trip as vice president, and  Google ended its promise to not use artifical intelligence for weapons development and surveillance. It coincides as the fallout continued over the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, a development that has rapidly grown in popularity. It has already been banned in Italy. lingering privacy concerns.

President Trump announced on the day after his inauguration that Oracle, Softbank and OpenAI would launch a joint venture to invest $500 billion in private funding to boost U.S. AI infrastructure.

During Trump's first administration, he signed many AI-related executive orders. He revoked government policies that "act as barriers to American AI innovation." The order didn't list those policies.

Biden's Executive Order "established unnecessarily burdensome requirements for companies developing and deploying AI that would stifle private sector innovation and threaten American technological leadership." The Order said "American development of AI systems must be free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas."

In February 2019, Trump signed the American AI Initiative order to double AI research investment and created the first set of national AI research institutes that included Artifical Intelligence technical standards by establishing guidance for the federal government's use of AI, and was joined by a December 2020 order which further promoted the use of trustworthy AI in the federal government.

Vance will then travel to Germany, after the AI Summit, for the Munich Security Conference from Friday through Sunday to discuss the potential threats of technology. This trip will mark the first time the Trump administration has come face-to-face with European leaders since it started resetting priorities toward U.S. allies.