Trump administration escalates AI training defense with US court statement
By Emma Whitford ( September 2, 2026, 20:39 GMT | Comment) -- President Donald Trump’s administration took its most forceful action to date defending artificial intelligence companies’ model training practices, telling a federal judge that a “narrow” fair use analysis would undermine national security and dismissing a conflicting US Copyright Office report as “threadbare.” Prior to this week, the Trump administration has not directly addressed a court considering these issues.President Donald Trump’s administration took its most forceful action to date defending artificial intelligence companies’ model training practices, telling a federal judge that a “narrow” fair use analysis would undermine national security and dismissing a conflicting US Copyright Office report as “threadbare.”...
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