Senate Majority Leader John Thune says President Trump is "not really dug in" against guardrails for AI , despite Trump's public campaign against restricting the technology, Axios reports

The useful distinction is between an administration opposing regulation outright and one haggling over its scope; a leader described as not dug in belongs to the second category, which in past episodes of tech oversight has tended to end in a federal framework lighter than industry feared but broader than the campaign language implied. The actors matter here: a Senate Majority Leader speaks with knowledge of whip counts and committee sequencing, so this reads as legislative reconnaissance rather than freelancing. For the AI-linked equity complex, the established pattern is that headlines widening the possibility of guardrails hit sentiment only modestly until draft text or a committee markup converts rhetoric into compliance cost. What follows in the usual sequence is whether committee chairs echo the flexibility, whether the White House corrects or confirms, and whether any bill text surfaces with a timeline.