President Trump has announced a major AI initiative called "Stargate" -- but the firms involved have DEI policies that go against his goal of eliminating such programs.
One further force promoting AI innovation could be defence spending. America puts only a tiny fraction of its $850bn defence budget into AI. Silicon Valley executives hope that the Trump administration will allow more participation by startups building AI weapons and systems in the competition for defence contracts.
Elon Musk, the close Trump adviser who has his own AI company and was notably not at the press conference, erupted Wednesday with a relentless stream of online mockery. “They don’t actually have the money,
Stargate — the joint venture between OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle — is starting its AI infrastructure plans with 10 data centers in Texas.
OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle will join forces to create Stargate, a new company investing $500 billion in AI infrastructure. President Donald Trump said of the investment: “A resounding
Hearst Newspapers conducted an AI-driven analysis to compare Donald Trump's 2025 speech to the one he delivered in 2017, and to Obama's and Biden's.
Though Trump is set to reshape the future of AI in America, there's another corporate investment set to take off under his leadership.
Opinion: NZ has already been slow to integrate AI into their business processes.
On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump announced a half-trillion-dollar AI initiative that will begin at Abilene's Lancium campus.