Why 🐵 UnitedStatesNews-NoOpEd picked: As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails

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Source: theguardian.com

<p>It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>’s sons, through a series of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/artificialintelligenceai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">AI</a>-linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal in the past year. His longtime friend Michael Dell won a Pentagon contract worth nearly $9bn. And this week, as public support for artificial intelligence sinks to some of the lowest levels ever recorded, the president went to bat for the industry. .</p><p>“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades,” he posted on Truth Social Monday. “There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data Centers.” It was the first of many aggressively pro-AI posts he would make this week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/20/trump-ai-policy-financial-interest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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