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As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails

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It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts Donald Trump ’s sons, through a series of AI -linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Mari…

Key facts

  • It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts Donald Trump ’s sons, through a series of AI -linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Mari…
  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:00:13 UTC.

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  1. As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails

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

  3. U.S. economy hits pivotal milestone: Spending on data centers and other information-processing hardware now exceeds housing investment

  4. UK minister warns of impact of Trump’s Iran war on next month’s budget

  5. Iran’s economy faces another blockade: Red tape and gridlock are clogging up land routes that bypass the U.S. Navy’s Hormuz stranglehold

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