AI, Trump and Elon Musk
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The leading role the former “first buddy” took in stoking the Epstein controversy shows how he remains a potent political risk for Trump months after he publicly left the White House.
President Trump on Thursday denied wanting to harm tech billionaire Elon Musk’s businesses, amid questions over whether he supports federal agencies working with the Tesla CEO’s companies.
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Axios on MSNTrump says he wants Musk to thrive, not to destroy himPresident Trump said on Thursday that he wanted to see Elon Musk's companies thrive, one day after the White House said he didn't want Musk's xAI to get government contracts. Why it matters: Since the Trump-Musk relationship blew up last month,
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI recently secured Defense Department contracts worth up to $200 million. A planned executive order could put those funds in jeopardy if they don't fall in line.
On the same day that Trump issued his anti-woke AI order, his AI Action Plan promised an AI "renaissance" fueling "intellectual achievements" by "unraveling ancient scrolls once thought unreadable, making breakthroughs in scientific and mathematical theory, and creating new kinds of digital and physical art."
Tech companies selling AI to the federal government now face a new challenge: proving their chatbots aren't "woke."
The initiative hadn’t been planned to include xAI’s Grok model as recently as March, the former Pentagon employee said.
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Here's everything we know about President Trump's AI Action Plan, a roadmap for the administration's approach to AI.