Welcome back to Daily Zaps, your regularly-scheduled dose of AI news ⚡️ 

Here’s what we got for ya today:

• 🇺🇸 America’s AI action plan

• 🚀 GPT-5 coming in August

• 📉 AI summaries killing news site traffic

• 🚫 No ‘woke AI’

Let’s get right into it!

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GOVERNMENT

America’s AI action plan

Donald J. Trump’s administration introduced an AI Action Plan to secure U.S. global dominance in artificial intelligence, aiming to boost economic growth, national security, and human progress.

The plan is built on three pillars: accelerating AI innovation by fostering private-sector-led breakthroughs, supporting open-source initiatives, and enabling adoption across industries and government; building American AI infrastructure through increased energy generation, streamlined permitting, revitalized semiconductor manufacturing, and secure data centers; and leading in international AI diplomacy and security by promoting U.S. AI systems and standards globally, countering adversarial influence, and enforcing export controls.

This roadmap positions the United States to harness AI’s transformative potential while safeguarding national interests and values.

Link to 23 page PDF AI Action Plan

STARTUPS

GPT-5

OpenAI is preparing to launch its next major model, GPT-5, in August, marking a significant step in the intensifying AI race as the U.S. seeks to outpace China. Originally expected earlier, the release has faced multiple delays, but signs of imminent launch include CEO Sam Altman’s recent comments and active testing by developers and security teams.

GPT-5 is anticipated to be more powerful, with enhanced coding abilities and features combining traditional and reasoning model capabilities, alongside mini and nano versions available via API. OpenAI is also working on a new open-weight model — its first since GPT-2 in 2019 — which may debut around the same time.

MEDIA

AI summaries killing news site traffic

A new study warns that Google’s AI Overviews, which summarize search results at the top of the page, are causing up to an 80% drop in clickthrough rates for news sites by pushing links lower and giving users answers without visiting the source.

UK publishers report significant traffic losses, with MailOnline seeing desktop click rates fall 56%. Critics, including news executives and advocacy groups, argue this threatens the sustainability of quality journalism and have filed a legal complaint with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.

Google disputes the findings, calling the studies flawed and claiming AI features create new opportunities for discovery while still sending billions of clicks daily.

GOVERNMENT

No ‘woke AI’

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed three executive orders aimed at positioning the United States as a global leader in artificial intelligence while eliminating what his administration calls “woke AI” from federal use. The orders prohibit government agencies from procuring AI models influenced by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideologies, instead requiring “truth-seeking” systems that emphasize historical accuracy, scientific rigor, and objectivity.

At the same time, the administration is launching an “American AI Exports Program” to promote U.S. AI technologies abroad and removing federal regulations it views as obstacles to innovation and deployment. These actions are part of Trump’s broader “Winning the AI Race” plan, which outlines 90 federal policy initiatives focused on accelerating AI innovation, building robust AI infrastructure, and leading international AI diplomacy and security—moves intended to make the U.S. an “AI export powerhouse” and dominate global AI leadership.