Axios

President Trump set out on his first day in office to free artificial intelligence from government constraints.

• 15 months later, his own White House is preparing to become a gatekeeper for the most powerful new models on Earth.

Why it matters: AI has crossed a threshold that no administration — not even one ideologically committed to staying out of its way — can afford to ignore.

The gasoline price surge is reigniting political chatter about suspending the federal tax on the fuel to help consumers, thanks to a recent round of populist proposals from high-profile Democrats.

Why it matters: It's one of those go-to ideas that never actually happens, but often surfaces when prices climb.

I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI: better prompting, improving AI memory, starting a business using AI and running a business using AI (tonight).

Congrats! You started a business using AI. Now, you've got to run it. AI can help with that, too.

• The old rule: After launch, the hiring surge and spiral begins. Every hire slows the business down before it runs.
• The new rule: The next generation of companies will be designed before they're staffed. You can use AI agents to execute a lot of the work. You supervise outcomes, not big teams of people, until business is rolling in.

Why it matters: This could be the real jobs story of the decade — perhaps even bigger than "AI takes your job." The same technology that threatens millions of existing roles can create a wave of small, profitable, lower-headcount companies that couldn't have existed five years ago.