In a scene from the first week of the second Trump administration, the president announced a major venture with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank to build a new data center for artificial intelligence, with Elon Musk questioning the funding’s validity. Despite Musk’s criticism, Trump dismissed it, citing personal animosities within the deal. The administration is marked by internal conflicts, including protectionists versus Wall Street, Middle East hawks against realists, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-corporate vision clashing with Silicon Valley’s tech accelerationism.
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