{"id":1924,"date":"2025-12-17T04:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/how-silicon-valley-turned-trump-into-a-fellow-broligarch\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T04:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:32:50","slug":"how-silicon-valley-turned-trump-into-a-fellow-broligarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/how-silicon-valley-turned-trump-into-a-fellow-broligarch\/","title":{"rendered":"How Silicon Valley turned Trump into a fellow broligarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as (L-4th L) White House \u201cAI and Crypto Czar\u201d David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and first lady Melania Trump listen during a dinner at the State Dining Room of the White House on September 4, 2025 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/gettyimages-2233757825.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tU.S. President Donald Trump speaks as (L-4th L) White House \u201cAI and Crypto Czar\u201d David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and first lady Melania Trump listen during a dinner at the State Dining Room of the White House on September 4, 2025 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Hello and welcome to 2025&rsquo;s last issue of <\/em>Regulator<em>. If you&rsquo;re not a<\/em> Verge <em>subscriber, get off the 2026 naughty list by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>signing up here<\/em><\/a><em>. And if you&rsquo;re a <\/em>Verge <em>subscriber &#8211; well, dang, that&rsquo;s really nice of you. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/trumps-effort-to-ban-state-ai-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I appeared on <em>The Brian Lehrer Show <\/em>on WNYC<\/a> to talk about my reporting on President Donald Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/824608\/trump-executive-order-ai-state-laws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attempt to ban states from making their own AI laws<\/a>. I don&rsquo;t often get to appear on radio, but I love doing it for one unique reason. On cable news, you have 90 seconds to make your point and that&rsquo;s all you get. On podcasts, you fall into a rhythm in a room of peers for an hour and even though it can be fun, it runs the risk \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/845955\/donald-trump-big-tech-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as (L-4th L) White House \u201cAI and Crypto Czar\u201d David Sacks, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}