How Silicon Valley turned Trump into a fellow broligarch

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks arsenic (L-4th L) White House “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and archetypal woman Melania Trump perceive during a meal astatine the State Dining Room of the White House connected September 4, 2025 successful Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Last week, I appeared connected The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC to speech astir my reporting connected President Donald Trump's attempt to prohibition states from making their ain AI laws. I don't often get to look connected radio, but I emotion doing it for 1 unsocial reason. On cablegram news, you person 90 seconds to marque your constituent and that's each you get. On podcasts, you autumn into a bushed successful a country of peers for an hr and adjacent though it tin beryllium fun, it runs the hazard …

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