Microsoft’s Brad Smith on Washington’s AI policy: ‘Regulation without transparent or complete rules’

Microsoft President Brad Smith criticized the Trump administration's AI policy for lacking transparency and clear rules, citing recent restrictions on advanced AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI as examples. The administration used export controls to limit access to Fable 5, Mythos 5, and GPT-5.6, but these actions have since eased, with Smith noting the government lacks adequate tools to regulate frontier AI effectively.