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Trump Wasted No Time Derailing His Own AI Plan
The president is setting America back in a race he desperately wants to win.
This backsliding is the result of a rapid ideological shift within the administration, which two men in particular have spurred: David Sacks, Trump’s tech-billionaire AI czar, and Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia and one of America’s most powerful executives in the industry. He gradually gained a bureaucratic advantage: The right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer persuaded Trump to fire David Feith, an ideological opponent of Sacks who ran a directorate at the National Security Council focused on technology. In this way, the data centers would offer a silicon shield for the Middle East nations, as well as grant them significant leverage in their relations with both America and China.Moreover, the deal threatens to pull the U.S. further into the region, at a time when successive administrations have tried to focus on the Indo-Pacific.
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