Focused on reporting the president’s actions and statements, the 13 journalists that make up the press pool can sometimes blend into the background.

The White House’s move to take control of which outlets participate in the press pool is a break from a century of tradition with the White House Correspondents’ Association.

The move reflects the Trump administration’s more-skeptical attitude toward traditional media outlets.

Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith is urging the Trump administration to rethink regulations that would cap the export of artificial intelligence chips to “strategically vital markets” including Israel and Switzerland.

Microsoft will call for President Donald Trump's team to ease the limits on chips that can be used in data centers for training AI models so they no longer apply to a group of U.S. allies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is requesting the Trump administration to ease and simplify a new system which would curb the sales of advanced U.S. AI chips to much of the world. "The Biden administration’s interim final AI Diffusion Rule caps the export of essential American AI components to many fast-growing and strategically vital markets,