Weekly Wisdom | Tech Accelerates
Trump & Tech Combine
This past Tuesday, some of America’s most prominent tech leaders—including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Greg Brockman, Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang—met with President Trump at the White House to discuss artificial intelligence. Just five days earlier, many of these executives had joined him for a state dinner honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping. Since returning to office, Trump has cultivated support from the Tech Right while pursuing broader cooperation with Big Tech. That partnership is beginning to produce concrete commitments, including this week’s voluntary agreement on AI safety. Other positive developments are also underway. Tech-related stories this past week:
Secretary of Defense Hegseth, under President Trump’s direction, announced a new defense initiative to assess the future of warfare and how the U.S. military will have to evolve to meet these new defense demands. Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and former Speaker Newt Gingrich will be leading this new Pentagon initiative.
Secretary Hegseth also announced the formation of AUTOWARCOM, or Autonomous Warfare Command. This new command will implement and scale autonomous and robotic capabilities across the U.S. military.
At the recent White House AI gathering, the assembled tech executives voluntarily agreed to independent audits, stronger internal safeguards, and a safety pact around shared principles. Given that many of these executives are direct competitors, an AI framework that benefits U.S. citizens and the government is a positive development.
The Trump administration also launched America.gov the same day, which uses AI to simplify and streamline access to the federal government. Largely designed by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, America.gov is a substantial improvement over prior government websites, which poorly served the American people.
All of our domestic manufacturing and compute needs will require large amounts of energy. Fortunately, the Trump administration recently announced a $120 billion investment from South Korea to invest in various U.S. nuclear projects, including eight large nuclear reactors.
The Trump administration is making a big bet on AI and reindustrializing the United States. Recent polls show Republicans are in for significant midterm electoral losses, so a booming post-election economy from massive domestic investment could be enough to get the 2028 Republican candidate (Vance?) across the finish line. And beyond the election, President Trump’s pivot to AI and manufacturing will reboot our economy for decades.
