‘An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical’: meet Trump’s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation

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David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI – putting the White House out of step with its own party As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligenc…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:00:17 UTC.

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